LETTER: Joe Maswanganyi must be held accountable for his failure to address the Prasa disaster
The announcement that an interim Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) board has been appointed caught me by surprise. Why has an interim board been appointed and not a proper board? The term of the last board terminated at the end of July and since then this embattled SOE (state-owned entity) has been functioning without a board for almost three months. What, then, is the function of an interim board? These are all questions I will be asking the minister of transport, Joe Maswanganyi. Earlier this month, I wrote to the public protector asking her to investigate the minister as he had failed to appoint a new board. I believe that my letter to the public protector is still valid as the announcement on Thursday refers only to an interim board. The failure to appoint a board has resulted in Prasa failing to table its annual reports as there is uncertainty as to whether the acting CEO can be considered the accounting authority in terms of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA). In a let...
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