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TimesLIVE reports that dozens of trucks have been attacked or torched on SA's roads in the past eight months, with 13 incidents in the past month alone.
This was revealed by the police, employment and labour, home affairs, and transport departments in a joint statement, which was issued in the wake of recent protests, largely against the employment of foreign nationals in the trucking sector. The departments said they had met this week and had adopted a “comprehensive response to this criminal activity”. According to the departments, “labour issues” were one of the leading causes of the unrest and the targeting of the trucking sector. This, they indicated, “has to do with disturbing emerging tendencies by some employers displacing South African truck drivers with foreign nationals and subsequent sporadic actions of torching of trucks by those affected in an attempt to get government to take action against foreign truck drivers”. Employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi said the government would not hesitate to take action against criminal elements, but he also warned that those who were “using foreign nationals as cheap labour” must stop.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard at TimesLIVE
- Read too, Zimbabwean trucker narrowly escapes death after ambush on N12 highway near Daveyton, at SowetanLive
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