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11 years, R6-billion later: Parliament must hold hearings on state capture at PRASA

A decade of letters, reports, submissions, protests, civil disobedience and court actions by #UniteBehind — it’s time for SCOPA to do its job

The too-tall “AFRO-4000” locomotive was supplied to PRASA by Spanish rail company Vossloh España, via Swifambo, a front company. A complaint against Swifambo was first filed in 2015. Photo: Col André Kritzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0
On 18 August 2026, I sat through nearly ten hours of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) hearing from the Special Investigating Unit, the Hawks and the National Prosecuting Authority on referrals and prosecutions. Members drifted out as the day wore on. One searched for holidays in Muscat as I sat behind him.
The last question of the day was put by the chairperson, Songezo Zibi, and it was the one we had come for: what has happened to Swifambo and Siyangena, the two…

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