The Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula will on Monday, 17 January conduct an oversight visit of the Cape Town Northern Line and the Western Cape Rail Management and Traffic Control Centre in Bellville.
The purpose of Mbalula’s visit is to monitor the progress made in the station upgrade project after PRASA has embarked on a series of station improvements in anticipation of service resumption as well as delivering the Annual Performance Plan through the National Station Improvement Project (NSIP).
The NSIP program is meant to address minor station upgrades and introduce noticeable and lasting improvements at small and medium-sized railway stations.
The station upgrades are part of PRASA’s ongoing efforts to recover vandalized stations, revitalize the rail service and improve customer experience.
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Mbalula recently confirmed that his department will also present a new driver’s licence card machine for approval at the first Cabinet meeting of the year.
According to Mbalula, the German-made machine that produces driver’s licenses has been deemed as old, as no other country in the world is still using this type of machine.
“We are introducing a new card machine that doesn’t need to go to Germany to be fixed. Once the cabinet approves that, new machines are going to come. It’s going to be a new machine that is going to be on par with the developed world,” Mbalula indicated.
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