Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is not one for brevity. Her latest report into malfeasance at parastatal the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, runs to 391 pages. But who can blame her: if experience with her past reports is anything to go by, Madonsela needs her findings to be expressed in a watertight manner to have any hope of her recommendations being taken seriously. Of concern is the fact that Madonsela's report records (again) how difficult it was to get the necessary information from the agency in order to complete her investigation. By REBECCA DAVIS.
In order to complete her investigation into the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), Public Protector Thuli Madonsela and her team had "immense difficulty", because "information had to be clawed out of Prasa management". Even after issuing subpoenas, as is the public protector's legal right, they were still not cooperated with entirely.
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