DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC ENTERPRISES
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO.: 2158
DATE OF PUBLICATION:06 November 2009
2158. Mr G R Morgan (DA) to ask the Minister of Public Enterprises:
(1) Whether she has been informed of the state of disrepair of the Gillitts
Railway
station building in Durban; if so,
(2) whether any plans are in place to rejuvenate the station; if not, why
not; if so, what plans;
(3) whether Transnet will consider leasing the building to a community
organisation as it is no longer in use; if not, why not; if so, what are
the relevant details? NW2850E
REPLY
1) Yes, I have been informed that owing to the station building having been
vacated by the lessee in 2001, it is no longer occupied and has fallen
into disrepair.
2) Transnet was restrained by a legal dispute with the previous lessee of
the building from using the building. With that dispute recently being
resolved, Transnet now intends to lease this building through a public
tender process and to facilitate the revamping of the building once a
new tenant has been found.
3) Transnet will lease the building to any tenant at a market related price
provided that such a tenant meets Transnetâs leasing criteria.