Prasa breaks silence on competition watchdog report

[John Ashworth]

Prasa breaks silence on competition watchdog report

Context is everything – this is the response from the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa's administrator Makhosini Mgitywa, relating to provisional findings by the Competition Commission's market inquiry into the public passenger transport market.

The Competition Commission this week released its provisional report on the market inquiry, which made findings on Prasa and its subsidiary, Autopax, which operates bus services Translux and City to City. Prasa also manages bus terminals around the country through its division Prasa Corporate Real Estate Solutions (Prasa CRES). The fact that Prasa is involved in providing both interprovincial bus services and intermodal terminal facilities - terminals that link different modes of transport such as train and bus routes - is "undesirable," the Commission said...