{"id":96605,"date":"2015-08-24T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=96605"},"modified":"2015-08-24T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:29:26","slug":"prasas-culture-of-hiding-information-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/96605\/prasas-culture-of-hiding-information-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Prasa&#8217;s culture of hiding information: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has found evidence of widespread maladministration and impropriety in the awarding of tenders worth R2.8 billion at the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa).<\/p>\n<p>In her report entitled &#8220;Derailed&#8221;, which was released on Monday, she found that 19 of the 32 complaints were substantiated.<\/p>\n<p>The transactions revealed a culture of &#8220;systematic failure&#8221; to comply with Prasa&#8217;s supply chain management policies.<\/p>\n<p>Madonsela found a culture of hiding information at Prasa.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints were brought by unions Satawu and National Transport Movement in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows 37 complaints were lodged but the report only details 32.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Evidence-of-Prasa-maladministration-and-impropriety-20150824\" target=\"_blank\">Fin24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Prasa<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/96131\/prasa-afro4000-locomotive-derails\/\">Prasa Afro4000 locomotive derails<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/95437\/public-protectors-explosive-report-on-prasa\/\">Public Protector\u2019s \u201cexplosive\u201d report on Prasa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/94899\/minister-orders-probe-into-alleged-financial-and-tender-irregularities-at-prasa\/\"><strong>Minister orders probe into alleged financial and tender irregularities at Prasa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has found evidence of widespread maladministration and impropriety in the awarding of tenders worth R2.8 billion at Prasa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":48628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,5695,1967],"class_list":["post-96605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-prasa","tag-thuli-madonsela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96609,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96605\/revisions\/96609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}