THE Msunduzi Municipality’s integrated rapid public transport network (IRPTN) remains a white elephant despite the municipality’s pledge that the almost R1-billion project was near completion in 2022.
The construction between Imbali township and the Pietermaritzburg city centre physically took off at the beginning of 2016. It was intended to diversify the city transport system by making minibus taxis and bus coaches work hand-in-glove.
Then city manager Madoda Khathide, on February 8, 2022, presented a comprehensive report to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Appropriation indicating that the project was 99% complete.
“Infrastructure implementation is 99% complete with the last work package to be completed by February 15, 2022. Even though the infrastructure
