MINISTER of transport Fikile Mbalula is investigating how 3,000 unverified employees got onto the state-owned Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s (Prasa) payroll.
The minister said that Prasa has started the process of physically verifying all its employees under Project Ziveze, adding that since the freezing of salaries to employees who did not actually work at the company, more employees have come forward to be verified.
He added that a forensic investigation is currently underway on how the ‘ghost’ employees found their way onto the payroll.
“Once the investigation is concluded, action will be taken against those who are implicated.”
In a virtual meeting earlier this year the Standing Committee on Public Accounts conducted a hearing on the annual report of Prasa for the 2020/21 financial year ad investigated irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
The Committee raised questions over the rail agency’s action plan to deal with its repeat findings
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