03 Sep 2015
The Prasa briefing has officially ended.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: "I'm very cautious about it [my safety]".
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: Yes, I consider the threat to be real (asked about the case he opened with police, regarding threats to his life).
03 Sep 2015
Acting CEO Nathi Khena: At the moment the 7 senior manager have been issued with charges and a date for a disciplinary hearing has been set.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: "That is why we have approached National Treasury to give us a senior procurement officer" and overhauling the supply chain management system.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: The board's checking tenders and holding them back will risk delaying Prasa's modernisation programme and could affect commuters.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: We as a board are dealing with those questions. There has not been a single tender that has been awarded since this board got into office.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: We really don't know because we were not in office at the time (asked how all this maladministration was allowed to happen).
03 Sep 2015
Prasa: Yes, we were shocked about the damning findings [in the PP report]. We are a new board. We only became aware seriously of the PP's investigation in March this year, even though it started in 2012.
03 Sep 2015
News24 reporter Thomas Hartleb has been covering the live updates for Fin24.
03 Sep 2015
Prasa chair says the HR unit will have to look at what the weaknesses in the unit were, which caused things to "fall through the cracks".
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: Several employees are implicated in wrongdoing. Prasa will apply the appropriate policies to take steps against those individuals implicated in wrongdoing.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: Lucky Montana is exercising his constitutional right in asking for a review of the Public Protector's report.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: "We are doing what is right in terms of the law of this country."
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: In dealing with the contracts, we don't want Prasa's "all important modernisation programme" to suffer. Prasa needs to look at the impact those contracts will have on commuters.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: Whether we recover the money already spent will depend on the merits of each case and the legal outcomes of each case. I can't tell you how much can be recovered. It should be possible to recover some of the moneys.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: Prasa have since found another employee who has claimed to have a doctorate and may not have one.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: "We don't know what happened previously" when these people were hired.
03 Sep 2015
The qualifications audit "had a lot to do" with Daniel Mthimkhulu's lack of a qualification.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe say they will assess the merits of each case identified in the PP's report. I'm not going to get involved in talking about names of individuals.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: We will take action in respect of all individuals implicated in wrongdoing, Each case will be dealt with on its own merit. He does not want to single out any individuals, like former group CEO Lucky Montana.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: This organisation is on track. It is doing its work.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: We remain committed to ensuring the roll-out of a modern passenger rail system.
03 Sep 2015
Molefe: Prasa will immediately begin an academic qualifications verification audit, to be conducted by the SA Qualifications Authority.
03 Sep 2015
In April 2015, Prasa internal audit was instructed to review all payments over R10m made from April 1, 2014.
03 Sep 2015
The board has told management to suspend questionable contracts.
03 Sep 2015
This is all part of the "cleaning up process" of the company that the board had begun to enhance good corporate governance.
03 Sep 2015
Prasa is considering legal steps regarding some of the remedial action recommended by the PP. We will deal with some of the employees implicated in irregularities and wasteful expenditure.
03 Sep 2015
The Prasa board has directed management to strengthen supply chain management structures and find an experienced chief procurement officer.
03 Sep 2015
Popo Molefe: Prasa has committed to cooperate with the second part of the Public Protector's report.
03 Sep 2015
The board has already begun addressing the findings in the Public Protector's report.
03 Sep 2015
The board of Prasa is impelled to take the "necessary measures" about the irregularities in the report, entitled "derailed"
03 Sep 2015
Prasa chair Popo Molefe: Public Protector's report is a concern to the board and is of public interest. It is compelled to take measures against irregularities.
03 Sep 2015
Genevieve Quintal, News24:
Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) board chairperson Popo Molefe is expected to brief media in Pretoria on Thursday on the outcomes of Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's report on alleged maladministration at the agency.
Madonsela's report detailed 32 complaints against Prasa, most of them involving maladministration relating to tenders totalling R2.8bn. Madonsela found 19 of them were substantiated. Another three would be the subject of reports in future.
Following the release of the report last month, Molefe said the report would be tabled before the board and carefully considered. Further steps would then be decided on.He also said the report would help put claims of impropriety to rest.
Axed Prasa chief executive Lucky Montana was widely implicated in the report.In 2012, the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union reported allegations of corruption and tender irregularities at Prasa to the Public Protector.Montana has said he will go to court to challenge Madonsela's report.
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