One of PRASA's new blue trains. Archive photo: Tariro Washinyira One of PRASA's most vital capital contracts – to upgrade its depots to accommodate its new blue trains – has been delayed by irregularities. Dozens of new blue trains have been left to stand idle. A settlement agreement between a failed tenderer and the contract award winner may be against procurement rules. New blue trains, which promised a renewal in commuter rail for the country, keep coming out of the Gibela factory in Dunnottar, but the depots of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) are not ready to receive them.

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