ANA reports that the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Monday called on KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) transport and community safety member of the executive council (MEC), Mxolisi Kaunda, to take urgent steps to ensure the safety of province’s road users as attacks on trucks and truck drivers continued.  

In the early hours of Sunday morning, a truck was set on fire on the Orthmann Road on-ramp in Pietermaritzburg.  Fortunately, the driver escaped unharmed.  Shortly after this incident, another truck was set alight on the N3 near the Mooi Toll Plaza.  The driver was injured, but is in a stable condition.  The attacks are believed to be related to the high number of foreigners being employed in preference to local unemployed drivers, which the local trucking industry has been raising as a concern for a number of months.  Sharon Hoosen, DA spokesperson on transport in KZN, said:  “These incidents have been going on since April last year, with more than 15 trucks burnt on the N3 this weekend alone, yet no one has been arrested let alone brought to book.  The reality is that criminals are taking control of our roads with law enforcement nowhere to be seen.”

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