Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) chair Leonard Ramtlakane said the company has identified a host of employees instrumental in facilitating the entity's dubious locomotive contracts - and is taking action against them. Prasa got into a contract in 2013 to procure 70 locomotives from Swifambo Rail Leasing for R3.5 billion. Tall loco tangoRamatlakane said Prasa had to finalise the procurement of locomotives with Stadler locomotives after Swifambo was liquidated. This included a visit to Standler's headquarters in Spain and negotiating for the locomotives to be returned to South Africa. "Prasa has paid R2.6 billion towards those locomotives and 13 of those locomotives were, in fact, dispatched to South Africa.

Source: News 24 July 21, 2022 07:50 UTC