Autopax

Autopax is a holding company of two South African intercity bus services and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa). Its mandate is to provide long distance inter-city and charter services as well bus services crossing borders in Southern Africa via the use of luxury, semi-luxury and intercity coaches.

Autopax

Industry	Intercity bus service
Predecessors	South African Road Transport Services Passenger Services Division of Autonet, a division of Transnet
Founded	1990's
Headquarters	South Africa
Areas served	South Africa Southern Africa
Key people	Nathi Khena CEO
Products	Translux City-to-City
Number of employees	1,629 (2016)
Parent	Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa
Website	Autopax

Background

Autopax Passenger Services (SOC) Ltd has its origins in the old state organization called the South African Road Transport Services that offered two services that at the time that were called, Translux and Transtate.^[1] In the 1990s, it became part of Autonet, a division of Transnet.^[1] Autonet would later be corporatised and is now called Autopax Passenger Services (Pty) Ltd and became part of Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa when that organization was formed in March 2009.^[1][2]: 9

Services

Autopax offers two styles of bus services and charter service:^[3]

TransLux

• This brand offers luxury bus travel using single and double decker buses between major cities and towns throughout South Africa.

City-to-City

• This brand offers a no frills semi-luxury bus travel between the major centres in South Africa and offers routes into Southern African countries such as Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Autopax Charters

• This brand offers a bus hire service.

Other services of by Autopax are emergency bus services for rail emergencies in PRASA Rails business.^[2]: 40 It also offers commuter bus service in Gauteng for the provinces Department of Transport since July 2015, with the contract extended until March 2017.^[2]: 31