Shosholoza Meyl ordered to halt rail operations indefinitely

Passengers on a Shosholoza Meyl train at Durban station. Picture: MOHAU MOFOKENG

The regulator announced on Tuesday that it had issued Prasa with a prohibition directive which “prohibits all Shosholoza Meyl operations with immediate effect”. Regulator spokesperson Madelein Williams said according to the findings of the preliminary investigation, the trains that collided were manually authorised and that the Prasa train was travelling at 60km/h at the time of impact. “This exceeds the 30km/h speed restriction imposed on a line that is operated under manual authorisation,” she said.

She said this was a “serious contravention” of a special condition that was issued to Prasa by the regulator on the issuing of Prasa’s temporary operating permit. “For trains to operate they need to be issued with a safety permit,” explained Williams. “At this point in time, Prasa has a temporary permit because it did not fully meet all the conditions of the permit.

While our incompetent ANC sit in luxury in Parliament praising themselves for their “achievements “ debating who beat who’s wife the best and denying that the country is falling apart. Useless is as useless does!

Every single thing in this country is falling apart!

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