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Sunday Times reports that in a blow to efforts to revive SA’s battered rail network, a senior Transnet executive is in hot water after demanding that six security companies contracted to secure railway corridors must cough up R30m to subcontract some of the work to a third party.
The demand made at a face-to-face meeting and repeated in a WhatsApp message, is seen as highly irregular as it had not been a condition of the contract and would entail additional costs for the security companies. Transnet confirmed on Friday that the allegations against Marius Bennett, general manager for safety and security at Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), would be included in an independent investigation that has already started into its R6.7bn “outcomes-based security” (OBS) contract to combat theft and vandalism on TFR’s rail network. Bennett has apparently been moved out of TFR to Transnet’s group office to await the results of the investigation, which Transnet said was expected to be concluded within two weeks. Bennett was meant to start this month as head of security for the newly established Transnet Infrastructure Manager, an entity set up to facilitate the opening of the rail network to private enterprise, among other things.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sabelo Skiti at Sunday Times (subscriber access only)
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