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BusinessLive reports that a truck drivers' association, on Monday became the second industry stakeholder to distance itself from the sporadic violent truck drivers’ strike.
Beverley Short of the National Truck Drivers' Foundation (NTDF) indicated that contrary to what had been claimed on social media, it was not behind the strike. She stated: “It's propaganda that we called for the strike. We committed not to participate in the strike whatsoever. None of our people are involved in this. It's purely criminals who are behind this and they don't want to come forward and admit to who they are. It's not NTDF at all, I will put my head on the block for that.” Threats made on social media at the weekend said the strike would be held from Monday to Tuesday. At least 20 people were reported on Monday to have been arrested in KwaZulu-Natal in connection with the ongoing truck strike, and are facing charges of attempted murder and malicious damage to property. There has been tension between foreign and SA truck drivers, with the latter accusing the former of stealing their jobs. This has led to scores of foreign national truck drivers being attacked and their trucks torched on the busy N3 and N2 roads.
- Read the full original of the above report by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive
- Read too, Threat to bar SA trucks, aircraft from Africa, on page 14 of Business Report of 3 September 2019
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