Prasa bungles plan to hire thousands of 'volunteers' as 'guards'

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Prasa bungles plan to hire thousands of 'volunteers' as 'guards'

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Prasa bungles multimillion-rand plan to hire thousands of 'volunteers' as 'guards'
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... A month later further recruitment for the project was put on hold. Newly appointed group CEO Zolani Matthews pulled the brakes on its implementation days after his arrival...
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