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Mthuthuzeli Swartz, who is currently out on R bail, has vehemently denied the accusations. His defence is a simple one; the former PRASA boss says that his signature, endorsing the removal of railway tracks, was forged.
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Are you a woman in journalism? Join our programme here. Mohiudeen promised that they would receive it. The uplifted rail material was loaded onto trucks and taken to the Durban Harbour and loaded into containers belonging to the buyers for onward exporting of the used rail. Then things unravelled: On 8 February , Transnet security discovered Akisisa employees uplifting the railway line between Sterkstroom and Maclear.
Upon being contacted, Adrian Samuels informed Transnet that he had been sold the rail by the accused. Transnet informed the Samuels that the rail could not be uplifted and had never been sold to Spanish Ice or Swartz or Mohiudeen.
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The charge sheet estimates that rebuilding the uplifted railway line would cost Transnet just shy of R59 million. Download our app and read this and other great stories on the move. Available for Android and iOS. Instead, Swartz and Mohiudeen allegedly went ahead with the uplifting of the railway line that was meant to be sent to Durban.
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The uplifted rail material was loaded onto trucks and taken to the Durban Harbour and loaded into containers belonging to the buyers for onward exporting of the used rail. However, it all unravelled for the Akisisa owners when they were informed by Transnet, in February , that the railway line could not be uplifted. By that time, Swartz and Mohiudeen had allegedly made it off with at least R1.
The damage that the pair have allegedly done, Transnet claimed in the draft charge sheet, will cost the state-owned parastatal an estimated Rmillion. Are you a woman in journalism? The magistrate said the issue of warrants and bail money would be held over until the next court date, 1 December. When GroundUp asked Kruger for further information on the matter of bail money, and whether it had been paid, Kruger said she did not know as she was not familiar with the case.
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