With just one cabinet meeting remaining in 2017, Transport Minister Joe Maswanganyi has one final opportunity to address his colleagues on the challenges affecting the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) and the South African National Road Agency (Sanral). Despite Maswanganyi assuring Parliament’s portfolio committee on transport that he would raise the matter of the troubled entities with the Cabinet, Communications Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said the Cabinet did not discuss this. She said during a post-cabinet briefing on Thursday, Maswanganyi would have had to conclude the matter at committee level before discussing the matter before the Cabinet. Sanral was late in tabling its 2016-17 annual report last week and has been seized with re-evaluating its funding models for road development and maintenance, saying the final call rests with the minister. The agency has scrambled to "clarify" reports that it intends to write off e-toll debt older than three years. It sent an e-ma...
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