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South Africans To Demonstrate Against Foreign Truck Drivers Next Week

4 years agoWed, 28 Aug 2019 08:00:24 GMT
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South Africans To Demonstrate Against Foreign Truck Drivers Next Week

Disturbing news coming from South Africa says South Africans are planning on demonstrating against foreign truck drivers in South Africa. A video is circulating on social media of a man announcing the protest that has been slated for 2 September 2019.

A reported 200 foreign drivers have died in South Africa since March 2018 according to the Human Rights Watch:

In March 2019, Human Rights Watch documented attacks against foreign nationals in Durban that led to the displacement of hundreds of them, at least 200 deaths, and several injuries. Since then, the Positive Freight Solutions Forum (PFSF), a South African truck owner association, estimates that there have been over 75 incidents of attacks against foreign truck drivers and their cargo. The perpetrators have indiscriminately targeted foreign truck drivers, or trucks owned by companies known to employ foreign truck drivers, nationwide. Human Rights Watch has independently confirmed 15 of the reported incidents, including the stabbing of Zimbabwean truck driver Tinei Takawira in Durban on March 25, the gasoline bomb attack on a foreign national truck driver in Durban on April 7, and attacks of several foreign truck drivers in Witbank in June. According to media reports, in a three-week period in May, over 60 trucks were hit with gasoline bombs in several attacks that each targeted multiple trucks. Most occurred near Mooi River on the N3 highway, which connects Durban to Johannesburg, Human Rights Watch research indicates.

A group of supposed South Africans holding a banner have gone viral. The banner reads:

South Africa first foreigners must fall, We will die for our country we want 100% South African Drivers in the trucking industry.

 

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