Trucks used to block freeway
Bystanders loot goods
Two trucks were used to barricade the N1 highway and then set alight during protests by truck drivers yesterday.
Bystanders helped themselves to the scorched remains of goods from the trucks.
Protests started across the country on Tuesday with several roads being barricaded and trucks burnt or hijacked. The strike is related to unhappiness about the employment of foreigners in the trucking industry.
Two truck drivers were “hijacked” on Cape Town’s roads on Tuesday after protesters brought traffic on the N1 and N7 to a standstill.
Former Western Cape ANC elections head and premier Ebrahim Rasool condemned the threats against foreigners through his organisation OneAfrica.Org.
Sipho Zungu of the All Truck Drivers Foundation told Sowetan’s sister publication Times LIVE on Tuesday he was aware of calls for a national shutdown‚ but had “nothing to do with it”.
“I have never called for any shutdown. But it is understandable that the drivers are now fed up. We are asking for justice to be done‚” he said.