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Lucky Montana, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa former chief executive (Photo by Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

SIU guns for former Prasa boss Lucky Montana over R3.5bn ‘corrupt’ rail tender

The Special Investigation Unit also has its sight on former finance deputy minister Sfiso Buthelezi, whose company allegedly received R110 million fraudulently

Former Eskom chief executive Brian Molefe (Oupa Nkosi)

State capture suspects sworn in as MK party MPs

Brian Molefe and Siyabonga Gama have taken up their seats just weeks before they are due back in court on corruption charges

Daniel Mthimkhulu during a media briefing on July 6, 2015 in Pretoria, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/Thapelo Maphakela)

Bogus Prasa engineer Daniel Mthimkhulu guilty of fraud

Mthimkhulu, who caused Prasa to spend R2.6-billion for trains unsuitable for the country’s rail network, faces a lengthy jail sentence

Lucky Montana, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa former chief executive (Photo by Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Montana backs Prasa-fraud accused Mthimkhulu as court hears how he bagged the top job

Montana testified that ‘unqualified’ Mthimkhulu was the right engineer for the state rail agency, despite his acquisition of allegedly faulty locomotives

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Zondo: Prasa and SAA whistleblowers needed protection

The report recommends that the government establishes a public procurement anti-corruption agency to ‘formulate measures for the making of reports by whistleblowers and for their…

Prasa CEO Zolani Matthews has been axed. (Twitter/@MbalulaFikile)

Prasa confirms precautionary suspension of its chief executive, Zolani Matthews

The board suspended Matthews after a meeting that considered “an alleged sensitive matter of security breach and other contractual obligations associated with” his employment…

Keeping silent: Jacob Zuma and his confidante Dudu Myeni have refused to answer important questions in the Zondo commission’s quest to unearth the full extent of state capture during Zuma’s time in office. Photo: Kevin Sutherland/Sunday Times /Gallo Images

Zuma’s silence leaves state capture’s truth up to inference

The case Zuma refused to answer before Zondo

Analysis of news coverage in May shows a governing party that is broke — and bitterly at war with itself. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

The ANC has moral decay on its plate, and the garnish is bitter

Analysis of news coverage in May shows a governing party that is broke — and bitterly at war with itself

Tiro Holele refuted evidence by former Prasa chairperson Lucky Montana that he was central to the irregular R3.5-billion deal and suggested that he was deliberately circumvented when it was approved.
(Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Montana lied about former tender committee chair’s role in Swifambo locomotive deal, Zondo hears

Tiro Holele said the former Prasa head was part of a pattern where executives mastermind irregular deals but blame subordinates

ANC secretary general, Fikile Mbalula. File photo by Madelene Cronje/M&G

Mbalula’s war with military vets belies the Prasa disaster

The transport minister uses humour, which his targets don’t find funny, to survive in tough times or to divert attention from a problem.

Prasa to dismiss four ‘Derailed’ officials

The passenger rails agency is to act against officials implicated in former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s 2015 report on corruption and maladministration

“That was just a beginning — the list is long. Some people have left the company, but we will be pursuing them and possibly lay charges if it is found that there was criminal intent,” said Popo Molefe. (Gallo)

Corruption-buster Molefe tackles Transnet

The move is part of Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s overhaul of state-owned enterprises

Signs are that the transport sector is on the path to recovery.

Corruption laden Prasa chugs along

The agency has been sitting on a damning report for a year and there’s still no sign of movement

Take down: Ex-railway boss Lucky Montana made like Scarface’s Tony Montana at the parliamentary hearings

Guns blazing or sweet surrender?

All eyes are on Jacob Zuma as South Africa tries to anticipate his next move

Former transport minister Ben Martins says he discussed a tender for trains with Tony

What’s in a cup of tea, Ben Martins asks

The deputy minister has admitted to arranging a meeting between the Prasa boss and Tony Gupta

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NPA eyeing prosecution over Prasa billions

The National Prosecuting Authority may decide at the end of July whether or not it will prosecute anyone over allegedly corrupt contracts.

Transport Minister Dipuo Peters denies trying to halt the probe into Prasa contracts
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Transport minister Dipuo Peters: I didn’t know of graft crisis at Prasa

The minister claims she was kept in the dark about the alleged graft at the rail agency.

Investigative journalist Paulie Van Wyk takes a look at how the former Public Protector has saved SA from President Zuma.

Thuli Madonsela vs former CEO Lucky Montana: we look at 10 points of contention on the public protector’s Prasa report

Former Prasa chief executive officer Lucky Montana refutes public protector Thuli Madonsela’s report on the crisis that went on at the organisation.

Former Prasa boss blasts Madonsela as ‘biased’

Lucky Montana has launched a scathing attack on public protector Thuli Madonsela, labelling her findings as irrational and unsubstantiated.

Tall trains: Prasa sues for R2.6-billion

The rail agency is also demanding that the 13 locomotives already delivered be sent back.