Nzimande condemns hijacking, kidnapping of Prasa board chair
Transport Minister Blade Nzimande will meet with the board of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) following the hijacking and kidnapping of its chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama.
The incident took place on Thursday.
The department says Kweyama was pepper-sprayed and bundled into the boot of a car and driven around for at least three hours before the suspects abandoned the vehicle in Katlehong.
Kweyama managed to escape unharmed.
"This act of violence against the chairperson is a scare and intimidation tactic against the Prasa board chairperson to defocus her on her enormous work and progress in turning around PRASA together with her board," Nzimande said in a statement on Saturday.
Nzimande believes the kidnapping could possibly be a scare tactic, amid several probes into maladministration, corruption and state capture at Prasa.
"I will be urgently engaging with PRASA board and management to discuss this matter further.
"Law enforcement agencies will continue to work hard and leave no stone unturned to arrest all the perpetrators of this senseless act of criminality and sabotage."