Meyl Regen
R 3,5 Billion
That is what PRASA spent on refurbishing yellow and grey trainsets, only to park them for vandals, or scrap them. That is how we South Africans roll. We get brand spanking new blue and white commuter trains, and completely forget we are sitting on re-usable rolling stock.
The original amount acquired was more than R7 billion, but someone caught them at it, legally halted the process, around the R 2.5 billion mark. Still, another R 1 Billion was wasted.