Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa

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Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa

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legal form State company SOE
founding 2009
Seat Hatfield , Pretoria , South Africa
management Zukile Nomvete ( Chairman )
Tshepo Montana ( CEO )
Salani Sithole ( COO )
David Kekena ( CFO )
sales ZAR 4.2 billion (2007)
Branch Local passenger transport, long-distance passenger transport
Website www.prasa.com

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa SOE ( PRASA for short ) is a state-owned transport company in South Africa . PRASA is headquartered in Prasa House in Pretoria . Today she is responsible for a large part of the handling of passenger traffic in South Africa.

The company is controlled by the National Department of Transport (Ministry of Transport). The legal basis for its activities is formed by the South Africa Transport Services (“SATS”) Act (Act No. 9/1989 ) as well as its amendment of 2008 and the provisions of section 4 of the National Land Transport Transition Act , ( Act No. 22 / 2000 ).

history

In 1916, when the South African Union was founded, all South African railroad companies were united to form South African Railways and Harbors , which later became South African Transport Services . On April 1, 1990, Transnet was founded, which took over these tasks. This does not apply to all passenger traffic that was originally handled by the South African Rail Commuter Corporation Limited (SARCC), also founded on April 1, 1990, and transferred to today's PRASA in 2009 ( Legal Succession to the South African Transport Services Amendment Act No. 38 of 2008 ) were. In 1995, SARCC handled a large part of the rail public transport in the cities of Durban , East London , Johannesburg , Cape Town , Port Elizabeth and Pretoria ; with around 1.1 million passengers a day. It was also announced in October that the company had negotiated a loan of over 220 million rand with the Japanese government to purchase five new local trains and 60 buses for use in Gauteng Province .

In 2006, the Main Line Passenger Services division began commissioning luxury long-distance trains, which are managed by the Luxrail department . This service has so far been expanded to include three lines from Johannesburg:

  • Johannesburg – Cape Town – Johannesburg
  • Johannesburg – Durban-Johannesburg and
  • Johannesburg – Port Elizabeth – Johannesburg.

PRASA was one of the five national sponsors of the 2010 Soccer World Cup .

PRASA

PRASA is active in six South African metropolitan areas. The company has depots for parking and maintaining the trains. They are located in Braamfontein , Salt River , Wolmerton, Springfield (JB Region F) and Durban .

Four subsidiaries operate in the respective sectors: Metrorail (regional traffic), Shosholoza Meyl (InterCity traffic) and Autopax (bus routes, long-distance bus routes). The properties and means of transport are managed by Intersite , which is also part of PRASA .

Regional metrorail systems

The local transport system was originally a field of activity of South African Transport Services (SATS). In the early 1990s, Metrorail became a division of Spoornet due to the restructuring of the public transport sector . The South African Rail Commuter Corporation (SARCC) as the parent company had concluded an agency agreement with Spoornet. On January 1, 1997, Metrorail became an independent business unit in the Transnet group . In 2006, at the instigation of the Ministry of Transport, the complete transition from Metrorail to SARCC took place, which now forms its operational area.

There are Metrorail local transport systems in five metropolitan areas in South Africa:

478 stations are served and over 1.7 million passengers are transported daily on the local lines with 270 train units. Metrorail is based in Braamfontein ( Umjantshi House ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Metrorail: About . on www.metrorail.co.za (English)
  2. ^ PRASA: Legislative Mandate of PRASA . on www.prasa.com ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prasa.com
  3. ↑ Summary of legal bases. on www.saflii.org (English)
  4. ^ Legal Succession to the South African Transport Services Amendment Act No. 38 of 2008 . Government Gazette, Vol. 521, Cape Town, Nov. 27, 2008, No. 31650 (English)
  5. ↑ PRASA: Corporate Plan 2014/15 . at www.pmg.org.za, PDF document p. 2–3 (English)
  6. ^ SAIRR: South Africa Survey 1995/96 . Johannesburg 1996, p. 396
  7. ↑ PRASA: Rail. Commuter Rail Services . on www.prasa.com ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Premier Class. on www.southafricanrailways.co.za
  9. ^ Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) . on www.tabj.co.za ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tabj.co.za
  10. ↑ PRASA: Corporate Plan 2014/15 . at www.pmg.org.za, PDF document p. 30 (English)
  11. ^ Metrorail: Metrorail's origins . on www.metrorail.co.za (English)
  12. ^ Metrorail: Metrorail's origins . on www.metrorail.co.za
  13. ↑ Line networks. on www.metrorail.co.za (accessed August 26, 2013)
  14. ^ Metrorail: Contacts . on www.metrorail.co.za (English)