Probe to root out Prasa 'ghost employees' ongoing – Mbalula
Efforts to detect and eliminate ghost employees at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) are ongoing.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula says Operation Ziveze, which is meant to conduct a head count of staffers, has been launched at Prasa.
The project will see employees submitting to a physical verification process.
Mbalula told Parliament earlier this year that the cash-strapped passenger rail agency is being scammed by some 3 000 ghost employees.
PRASA initiated Project Ziveze aimed at physically verifying all PRASA employees. With the identification of 3000 employees who could not be verified their salaries were frozen.
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Their salaries have since been frozen.
"Since the freezing of salaries, more employees from those previously not verified came forward,” Mbalula says.
A forensic investigation is currently underway on the possible ghost employees and how these found their way into the payroll of Prasa. Once the forensic investigation is concluded, action will be taken against those implicated and culpable officials disciplined."
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