It’s been over five years since commuters in the south of Johannesburg have seen Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) trains pass through their communities. Trains were first suspended during the covid lockdown when there was little to no...
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the City will engage national government on the handover of passenger rail services following Council’s adoption today of a detailed Rail Business Plan. Council further adopted the Cape Town Long-Term Plan,...
On the sidelines of the G20 Summit hosted by South Africa, the country’s state-owned logistics company, Transnet, in partnership with France through the French Development Agency (AFD), and with the support of the European Union (EU), announced a...
By 2021, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) had collapsed. As corruption and mismanagement took hold over the previous ten years, the rail service became increasingly unreliable and unsafe. Almost all of PRASA’s customers stopped...
