The Sanral board announced last month that there were lapses in the procurement processes with the awarding of the contracts.
On Tuesday, two contractors were shot and wounded while they were doing repairs along the central line, reportedly between Kalksteen and Bonteheuwel stations.
Western Cape Prasa security officials have arrested several suspects caught in the act of cutting cables.
The minister has said on numerous occasions that he wanted the line to reopen fully this year.
For Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations, the financial health of passenger rail agency, Prasa, the Post Office and the Land Bank is of great concern.
The board was appointed in October 2020, tasked with turning the entity around and to put in place controls to stabilise the organisation.
Thousands of people are still occupying the train tracks in Langa and Phillipi.
The initial budget for the line was R1.2 billion.
The central line has not been in operation since October 2019.
The rail agency has confirmed that it has been served with an urgent application instituted by Zolani Matthews, who is seeking to interdict his already finalised termination of employment.
Untu general secretary, Steve Harris, said that they were taken aback by the decision to terminate Zolani Matthews' contract of employment, adding that politicians should stop interfering in running state-owned enterprises.
Numsa's spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said that Matthews was not the right person for this job because he refused to work with labour to find a permanent solution to the crisis facing workers at Autopax.
Zolani Matthews, who was appointed in February, was suspended last month after it emerged that he had been denied security clearance by the State Security Agency, which was a requirement of his employment contract.
Thousands of people have been living on the train tracks for many months in areas such as Langa and Phillipi. The agency has already served notices to people who have built shacks on the railway line but many have not moved yet.
In a statement released this weekend, the Prasa board revealed that CEO Zolani Matthews was denied top-level State Security clearance after failing to disclose his UK citizenship.
The commuter rail service said that it wants to move past the historic crisis of Prasa and build on stabilising the organisation.
Prasa CEO Zolani Matthews said that it was frustrating that they were unable to deliver on the service that the province should have on a regular and consistent basis.
Thousands of people have been occupying the train tracks for many months in areas such as Langa and Phillipi but soon they will have to vacate.
