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    NOW TO GET BACK ON TRACK

    Mar 06, 2020 4 minutes
    BY GABISILE NGCOBO
    PICTURE: PAPI MORAKE

    TRASHED trains, last-minute cancellations, lax security, appalling vandalism and catastrophic cash-flow problems.

    The list of issues plaguing the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) goes on and on – and the people who rely on its services to get to work every day are fed up, to say the least.

    The numbers speak for themselves: in 10 years the number of passengers using trains daily has dropped from 3,8 million to 387 530 – and there’s one person who can’t blame them.

    “It’s a national crisis,” says Bongisizwe Mpondo, the man who has what must be one of the most unenviable jobs in South Africa: digging Prasa out of the deep, dark

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