While Vodacom has cancelled its contract with PRASA for the provision of cellphones, which train drivers used to communicate with control rooms, it has also been revealed that ANC took R9 Billion from PRASA to pay for SANRAL e-tolls, according to Steve Harris from UNTU, which is a union within Prasa. Train drivers use these cellphones to get the verbal go-ahead to use routes to prevent accidents, because they can’t use the radio base system because that is not working either!
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ANC Takes R9 Billion From PRASA to Pay for e-Tolls! With No Brakes, Cellphones, Radios, Guards, SAPS or Money, The PRASA Train Has Derailed & Crashed Yet ANC Vultures Continue To Plunder it!
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Countrywide Aarto a recipe for even more bloodshed and chaos on our roads – If Johannesburg and Pretoria could not implement it successfully, it is highly unlikely that it could work anywhere else
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Aarto (the Bill on the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) will certainly not combat lawlessness on our country’s roads as the Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, argues. On the contrary, it is just a recipe for even more chaos and bloodshed. Aarto has already failed in Gauteng and the system has moved away from..
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Over 200 truck drivers have been subject to violent attacks in 2019 and more than 2000 vehicles have been damaged by illegal blockades, stoning and arson
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The newly appointed Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, says that unscrupulous transport operators and illegal foreign national truck drivers are to blame for the recent spate of violence. For local truck drivers, 2019 has proven to be the deadliest and most dangerous period on the roads in recent history. In the last 18 weeks alone,..
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CCMA in last ditch effort to avert train operator strike
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The dispute between the passenger rail agency (Prasa) and its workers union is heading to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA).
Last week the train operator and union Untu declared a dispute after the agency refused to increase its 7.3 percent wage offer and rule out retrenchments.
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