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Prasa planned to spend R200 million of its security budget on a rushed community watch project to hire thousands of volunteers.
The programme, spearheaded by chairperson Leonard Ramatlakane, was met with resistance from the security department and paused before it properly got off the ground.
Prasa is now reviewing serious risks identified with the project, though transport minister Fikile Mbalula insists everything is on track.
Desperate to halt the theft and vandalism of billions of rands in railway infrastructure, the new board of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) conceived an ambitious plan: 5 000 volunteers would be hired as patrollers, supervised by ANC military veterans, at a cost of about R200 million.
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