The decision by the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) to terminate contracts of 20 private security companies at the end of October has left railway infrastructure vulnerable to vandalism, says the United National Transport Union (Untu). In a statement on Friday by Untu spokesperson Sonja Carstens, the union lays all manner of accusations at PRASA, saying "the leadership of Untu repeatedly warned the [PRASA] board that the decision [to terminate security contracts] exposed their staff and commuters and the assets of PRASA as the SA Police Service have never in the past came to the party.
