Prasa War Room

Women Train Drivers Under Attack

August 27, 2019Zanele SabelaNo commentsMinister Fikile Mbalula, Prasa War Room, Safety, women train drivers under attack

Lerato Sithole* is proud of the job she does: getting Johannesburg’s commuters to work and back home again. But when she first started driving trains for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) she wasn’t prepared for the threats she would receive from commuters fed up with the country’s ailing rail system. Amid Transport…

SATAWU Demands Safety for Prasa’s Woman Train Drivers

August 12, 2019Zanele SabelaNo commentsModernisation programme, Prasa, Prasa War Room, Protection Services, Safety, Woman Train Drivers

South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) welcomes the launch of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s war room but believes the parastatal missed an opportunity to assure its staff – women staff in particular – that it is concerned for their safety. Launching the war room last Thursday, Minister of Transport Fikile…

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Women Train Drivers Under Attack

SATAWU Demands Safety for Prasa’s Woman Train Drivers