Now leaderless Prasa must urgently report to Parliament
16 July 2015
Release: immediate
It has just been reported that the CEO of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), Lucky Montana, was yesterday released from serving his notice period, which would have ended in December this year. Prasa is now without a CEO.
Mr Montana resigned in June this year and was serving out a six month notice period.
The Board of Prasa resolved to release Montana early, at a time when the parastatal is swirling in controversy over numerous allegations – including buying trains that are too large for our tracks, its head of engineering services being unqualified, and failing to hedge the exchange rate on the contract for the new trains, which will drive up the contract price significantly.