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BL Premium reports that a threatened protest by truckers has been suspended after intervention by the government, which is determined that nothing will be allowed to disrupt next week’s elections.
The truckers threatened highway closures in protest at the hiring of foreign nationals in what could have been a repeat of the disruption caused in 2021 when highways in KwaZulu-Natal were blocked. Transport minister Sindisiwe Chikunga gave the assurance on Thursday that the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (Natjoints) had developed an operational plan that was being rolled out to ensure safe, secure national and provincial elections on 29 May. She referred to the threat by some trade unions and associations in the trucking sector to embark on a national protest, including the closure of major routes from 20 May, to express their dissatisfaction. Chikunga said the justice, crime prevention & security (JCPS) cluster and the Department of Employment & Labour (DEL) had worked with the relevant trade unions, associations and other social partners to ensure the suspension of the planned protest. She added that the challenges in the trucking, freight and logistics sector would be attended to by government by legislative and enforcement measures. “To this end, ongoing operations, including joint inspections by the technical team, are focused on the enforcement of applicable laws and regulations that govern the conduct of operations in the freight and logistics sector.” These include enforcement of transport-related legislation as led by the department of transport and continuous compliance visits and inspections by the home affairs department to determine whether a person was in the country legally and was in possession of valid work permits linked to the correct place of work.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Linda Ensor at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
- See too, Government averts planned trucking strike, says Ntshaveni, at SABC News
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