In his own words, Lucky Montana, former CEO of the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa), says that he doesn’t know why, but “I cannot run away from association with President Zuma,” or so he told the state capture commission of inquiry in 2021.
Last week Montana took an oath to serve the people of SA as an MP for Zuma’s MK party. Perhaps the association is real.
Montana also claimed before the commission that it was he who stopped the Gupta family from manipulating the company’s rolling stock programme. As this anti-capture crusader was glee- fully sworn into parliament, it was hard not to notice the MK’s parliamentary caucus morphing into a rogue’s gallery of people with starring roles in commission of inquiry.
Prasa remains in a terrible position while Montana, the man under whose watch the agency’s spending soared from R500m in 2013 to R24bn in 2018, has returned to public office.
Prasa joined forces with the Gautrain to ferry fans to the clash between New Zealand and SA at Ellis Park Stadium on Saturday. Prasa, though its finances remain strained, did well, showing there may be hope for it.
Montana swearing to be faithful to SA is laughable in the light of his leadership during the trashing of Prasa.
Fans were pleased when the agency managed to run a train from Sandton to Johannesburg. How easy we are to impress?
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