Intercity train Shosholoza Meyl’s services have been suspended indefinitely after the company, a subsidiary of the embattled Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa), contravened the temporary operating licence it was given by the railway safety regulator.

The regulator announced on Tuesday that it had issued Prasa with a prohibition directive which “prohibits all Shosholoza Meyl operations with immediate effect”...

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