Railway safety regulator
Prasa disputes Competition Commission’s reasoning in 'unfavourable' report
The Competition Commission says its investigations have found that Prasa has been charging excessive prices for the use of Park Station.
One person died and another is in a critical condition in hospital following Wednesday night’s accident.
One person was killed and five others hospitalised after a passenger train collided with a stationary goods locomotive near the Horizon station in Johannesburg on Wednesday night.
According to the annual State of Railway Safety report, nearly 300 people were killed after being struck by trains on railway tracks in the 2018/19 financial year.
RSR CEO Nkululeko Poya was placed on suspension in November 2017 and faced 14 charges including gross misconduct, abuse of power and dishonesty, among others.
Two trains collided at the Wolmerton train station in Mountainview last week, resulting in the death of three passengers.
The Transport Department is facilitating the talks after the regulator moved to suspend the operators safety permit.
Last week, the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) served Prasa with a notice of intention to suspend its operating permit.
The agency has approached the courts for an interim order to lift the suspension of its safety permit.
The rail agency was given two hours to elaborate on its safety measures and respond to the RSR’s intention to revoke its safety permit on Friday.
The union says its seriously concerned with the regulator's decision to grant Prasa a one-year safety permit.
The Railway Safety Regulator took the decision to grant the temporary permit after not renewing Prasa’s licence, which expired at the end of July.
The Railway Safety Regulator on Thursday granted Prasa a temporary safety permit.
The regulator took the decision to grant the temporary permit after Prasa's licence expired at the end of last month.
The Railway Safety Regulator says the company’s current safety permit expired on Tuesday.
The Railway Safety Regulator says its previous safety permit, which came with special conditions, expired at midnight.
The regulator says that it will only renew its licence once it is satisfied with Prasa's planned interventions to address safety concerns.
The Railway Safety Regulator has banned all manual authorisation of Prasa trains until a plan is in place to avoid human error in the wake of two serious crashes over the past week.
The regulator says that it is concerned about the recent train accidents and has ordered a stop to manual authorisation to avoid human error, which it says was the reason behind the Germiston crash.