Prasa to step up security to protect employees from attacks

[John Ashworth]

Prasa to step up security to protect employees from attacks

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) said interventions would be implemented by its security services to protect its employees.
This follows the stoning of a 38-year-old female Metrorail train driver by an angry mob of commuters last month. The driver, who was en route from Durban to KwaDukuza (Stanger), was attacked after she refused to make an unauthorised stop.

The United National Transport Union (Untu) told The Mercury last week that vandalism, ageing infrastructure and attacks on train drivers by angry commuters were some of the issues affecting the train services in KwaZulu-Natal and across the country. Commuters at Durban Station said issues of safety, overcrowding and late trains were some of the challenges they were dealing with.

Responding to questions from The Mercury, Prasa’s national spokesperson, Nana Zenani, said it was disappointed by the senseless attacks on their employees who were merely carrying out their duties...