navigation search passenger rail agency of south africa type state owned enterprise industry passenger rail founded 1990 as sarcc headquarters johannesburg key people zukile nomvete chairman currently vacant ceo salani sithole coo david kekena cfo products transport management services revenue r4 2 bn 2007 number of employees website www.prasa.com the passenger rail agency of south africa prasa is a south african state owned enterprise responsible for most passenger rail services in the country . it consists of four branches metrorail which operates commuter rail services in urban areas ; shosholoza meyl which operates regional and inter city rail services ; autopax which operates regional and inter city coach services ; and intersite which manages the property owned by prasa . contents 1 history 2 difficulties 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit in 1910 as a consequence of the formation of the union of south africa all railway services in south africa were merged into the south african railways and harbours . the reclassification and renumbering of the rolling stock of the three constituent railways was implemented on 1 january 1912 . the south african railways and harbours was later renamed the south african transport services . 1 on 1 april 1990 transnet was created to take over most of the operations of the sats with the exception of commuter rail which was transferred to the newly formed south african rail commuter corporation sarcc . the sarcc owned commuter rail related assets including stations and surrounding land infrastructure and rolling stock while the services were operated by metrorail . initially metrorail was an operating unit of spoornet transnet s rail subsidiary ; in 1996 it became a separate business unit of transnet . long distance passenger rail services meanwhile were operated by spoornet now transnet freight rail under the name shosholoza meyl . in april 2011 prasa announced a huge plan to replace rolling stock worth r97bn ; 6600 new vehicles would be ordered . 2 difficulties edit the government observed that the separation of ownership between sarcc and transnet caused problems in particular with disputes over the responsibility for maintenance and investment . in 2006 ownership of metrorail was transferred to the sarcc unifying the responsibility for commuter rail . on 23 december 2008 the sarcc was renamed the passenger rail agency of south africa and in subsequent months shosholoza meyl and autopax were transferred from transnet to prasa . this left prasa as the owner of all the passenger carrying operations of the former sats . prasa mismanagement led to the loss of r2 .65 billion through the acquisition of spanish afro 4000 trains which were unsuitable for south african rails . the afro 4000 requires 4.14 meters of clearance too high for sa rail infrastructure at 3.965 m. 3 resulting scandal led to the 2015 removal of ceo lucky montana and his chief engineer dr. daniel mtimkulu . subsequent investigation revealed daniel mtimkulu falsified his qualifications . having claimed to possess an electrical engineering doctorate he was exposed as merely a technologist without even having completed a 4 year engineering b.s. 4 prasa has been criticised for being very slow to pay suppliers . 5 see also edit metrorail shosholoza meyl gautrain transnet transnet freight rail blue train references edit classification of s.a.r. engines with renumbering lists issued by the chief mechanical engineer s office pretoria january 1912 . reprinted in april 1987 by sats museum r. 3125 6 9 11 1000 railway gazette prasa to order 6 000 vehicles under fleet renewal plan . 2011 04 07 . retrieved 2011 04 08 . http mybroadband.co.za news general 148355 its confirmed prasas afro 4000 trains are too tall for south african tracks.html . missing or empty title help http www.politicsweb.co.za politics prasas daniel mtimkulu only an engineering technol . missing or empty title help prasa in court over non payment . railways africa . retrieved 2011 02 19 . external links edit passenger rail agency of south africa metrorail shosholoza meyl autopax intersite v t e departments of the south african government the presidency departments agriculture forestry and fisheries arts and culture basic education communications cooperative governance and traditional affairs defence and military veterans economic development energy environmental affairs finance health higher education and training home affairs human settlements international relations and cooperation justice and constitutional development labour mineral resources police public enterprises public service and administration public works rural development and land reform science and technology small business development social development sport and recreation state security telecommunications and postal services tourism trade and industry transport water and sanitation women separate agencies caa csir fpb fic fsb gcis gepf hsrc independent communications authority independent police investigative directorate media development and diversity agency national archives and records service national planning commission npa nicoc nrf palama pic public service commission salrc samsa san parks sanral sars stats sa zadna retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title passenger rail agency of south africa & oldid 725234186 categories passenger rail transport in south africatransport operators of south africatransport companies established in 1990hidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages afrikaansdeutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 14 june 2016 at 11 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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