says although it remains focused on improving the rail system throughout the country, it cannot do so without government intervening to stem rampant criminality.
The workers, who will hand over a memorandum of grievances to provincial government offices, are demanding improved rail services including the safety of commuters on trains.Prasa Spokesperson Nana Zenani says the workers’ demands are legitimate. “In Cape Town specifically, we had security interventions coming where we had about 60 additional security teams, those particular security teams were attacked by machine-gun wielding gangs, so it’s getting to a point where our mandate has ended as Prasa in terms of what we can do, but again the focus for Prasa is the modernisation of the system but we cannot do that when there is rampant criminality on our system,” she adds.
Commuters on the Cape Flats say they have decided to seek alternative transport on Friday due to a number of cancellations.
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