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SowetanLive reports that KwaZulu-Natal MEC for transport and human settlements, Siboniso Duma, has issued a stern warning to freight and logistics companies employing undocumented foreign drivers, vowing that their days of impunity are over.
Speaking after the province’s #NenzaniLaEzweni Operation netted more than 15 undocumented foreign nationals driving trucks and motorbikes at the Mkhondeni weighbridge on the N3 at the weekend, Duma said the next phase of the operation would focus on company owners. “We are now gunning for the owners of these companies in the freight and logistics sector. I have mandated RTI [the road traffic inspectorate] to arrest them for employing undocumented drivers who are turning our road networks into killing fields,” Duma stated.
He indicated that the province was tightening enforcement to root out the “deep rot” in the freight sector, a system he described as enabling illicit trade, human trafficking, and fatal crashes caused by unqualified drivers. According to Duma, the operation – led by the road traffic inspectorate in partnership with the home affairs department, the police, the employment and labour department, and local traffic authorities – was yielding significant results.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nandi Ntini at SowetanLive
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