OPINIONISTA: Prasa needs as much direction as its CEO

The interim chief executive officer of South Africa’s only passenger train operator was fashionably late for the media briefing that he had jointly called two days previously with the chairman. He had allegedly missed his flight from Durban, so Nkosinathi Sishi could not get to the Friday afternoon media briefing on time.

Also appointed were group chief risk officer, company secretary and group head of security. Their names would be announced once they had given notice of resignation to their current employers, said Kweyama. Appointments still to be made include group chief financial officer and human resources officer. “Stability is first and foremost of our responsibilities,” said Kweyama.

Sishi, the current interim chief executive, was brought in from the board to act in the position. He is the seventh interim chief executive since 2014. He replaced another interim chief executive, Sibusiso Sithole, who resigned end-February after only nine months in the role. Both Sishi and Kweyama vehemently deny the allegations, saying they have done nothing irregular. When asked who in the executive committee had participated in the DBSA project, and the dates of such meetings, Sishi could not name a single individual nor any of the meeting dates. Kweyama said the board and its capital investment committee had considered the transaction in “various meetings”, but could not give dates.

Kweyama had already told the media about the operational strides the organisation had made to resuscitate its dying operations: Two days previously Prasa had just launched the War Room, whose intended benefits would be “a single point at which all operational and the organisational challenges are to be dealt with, with a collective of experts and technicians located in all our regions at the same time digitally connected to be able to take decisions that immediately get implemented”.

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