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PRASA vs Siyangena: #UniteBehind joins court case to force rail agency to fight for billions of rands

PRASA doesn’t even have a law firm to represent it in huge upcoming legal battle

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News | 14 February 2020

Activists condemn PRASA appointment

Themba Camane was involved in botched Siyangena deal

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News | 10 February 2020

JP Smith claims success for railway security unit but cable theft goes on

City says it needs to take control of Metrorail in Cape Town, while #UniteBehind calls for commuter-centred safety plan

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News | 7 February 2020

Metrorail’s skorokoro trains

Cape Town’s trains are hard to love

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Photo Essay | 7 February 2020

Werksmans boots PRASA off the train

Law firm drops rail company for not paying R7.8 million invoice

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Brief | 5 February 2020

#UniteBehind takes Minister of Transport to court over PRASA

PRASA announces technical team to assist recently appointed Administrator

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Brief | 5 February 2020

Train commuters protest after being told to move to second-class carriage

Metrorail apologises for ticket conductor’s behaviour

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Brief | 24 January 2020

R1 billion to be spent on Cape Town’s broken Central Line, promises PRASA

But line still won’t be fully open until 2021

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Brief | 23 January 2020

Lawyers dump PRASA after failure to pay R19 million

This means the agency has no lawyers in disputes, some of them imminent, involving billions of rands

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News | 16 January 2020

PRASA boss offers new turnaround strategy

“We have heard this all before, a nightmarish sense of déjà vu” says #UniteBehind

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News | 15 January 2020

“Travelling on the Metrorail network is easy” says Metrorail. Really?

In a country which claims to be headed for “a better life for all” it is outrageous that thousands of commuters can be abandoned to a failing public transport system

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GroundView | 15 January 2020

Diary of a Metrorail kid

The daily gamble with commuters’ time

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News | 14 January 2020

Nightmare start to 2020 for thousands of Cape Town commuters

Khayelitsha bus and train services still suspended

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News | 13 January 2020

Cautious welcome for Mbalula’s shock PRASA announcement

Commuter groups hope to see action

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News | 9 December 2019

Mbalula a no-show at meeting with #UniteBehind

“Commuting to and from work has become a matter of life and death” says commuter activist group

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Brief | 5 December 2019

Commuter Lunga Zawa uses a wheelchair. But Nyanga station is only accessible by stairs

Cape Town Association for the Physically Disabled has been fighting since 2015 for better access

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News | 29 November 2019