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Prasa
June 9, 2023
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Policy
Prasa chairman dismissed
Mr Leonard Ramatlakane was found to have misused property owned by Prasa in Cape Town.
May 11, 2023
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Signalling
Siemens completes South Africa’s largest resignalling project
Work included replacing obsolete relay-based signalling, some of which predated World War II.
April 3, 2023
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Aria calls for collaboration to revive beleaguered South African network
Both freight and passenger traffic on the network have fallen in recent years.
December 5, 2022
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Commuter Rail
Prasa reopens Johannesburg - Naledi commuter rail line
Prasa is slowly reinstating commuter rail services in South Africa following extensive theft and destruction of infrastructure.
July 1, 2022
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Fleet
Prasa awards five rolling stock refurbishment contracts
The five-year contracts are worth $US 459.3m.
May 23, 2022
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Africa
Prasa funding rises to help commuter recovery
Funding to restore fleet and tackle vandalism.
May 26, 2021
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Africa
Repairs to vandalised South African rail networks to cost Rand 1.9bn
The South African Ministry of Transport budget will also increase from Rand 55.9bn in 2020-21 to Rand 74.5bn in 2023-24.
March 31, 2021
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Freight
South Africa courts third-party operators to support rail redevelopment
Freight and passenger numbers on the rail network have been steadily decreasing.
September 30, 2020
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Infrastructure
Extensive cable thefts and looting halts South African rail services
SOUTH Africa’s commuter rail services have all but ground to a halt following a cable theft epidemic and widespread vandalism that has prevented Metrorail services from operating across most of its network. Almost the entire Metrorail network, which is also partially used by Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) services, has been affected.
August 24, 2020
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Locomotives
Prasa launches bid to acquire additional Afro locomotives
THE embattled Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has presented a business case to parliament to acquire the remaining Afro 4000 and Afro Dual locomotives built by Vossloh Spain (now Stadler Rail Valencia), which were ordered but never delivered after it was discovered they exceeded the loading gauge on part of the country’s network.
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