Stan Bezuidenhout on Panic as more trucks are set alight in July 2023 скачать в хорошем качестве

Stan Bezuidenhout on Panic as more trucks are set alight in July 2023

My last video can be viewed at    • Stan Bezuidenhout on Trucks being set alig...   JOHANNESBURG - Four more trucks have been set alight - this time on the N2 between Piet Retief and Ermelo. This is the fourth incident where several trucks have been set alight in the past three days - bringing the number of torched trucks to 20. There have been separate incidents on the N2, N3 and N4 highways. Police say the latest incident happened in the early hour of this morning. The South African Police Service spokesperson in Mpumalanga Selvy Mohlala confirmed: "Three of them [trucks] are seriously burned and one is partially burned..." The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) has called on law enforcement to impose harsh penalties on those responsible for the recent truck attacks. Over the past five days, 16 trucks were attacked and torched along some of the country's major transport routes. In each incident, the truck drivers were removed from their vehicles by armed men before the vehicles were set alight. The All Truck Drivers Forum has denied being behind the sporadic attacks on the freight industry after close to a dozen trucks were torched in parts of the country. Six trucks were burnt along the N3 in KwaZulu-Natal and another five in Mpumalanga less than 24 hours apart, with the economic damage already estimated to run in the millions of rands. While it's unclear at this stage if the two incidents are linked, there are claims that criminal syndicates are behind the attacks. Security expert at the Institute for Security Studies, Willem Els, said that he suspected that freight wars were to blame. "We don't have a lot of information but what we can gather is that it might be some infighting in the industry due to the appointment of foreign truck drivers and that they are now taking these trucks up but we can see that these attacks were planned, well-orchestrated, they were very professional in what they did." The All Truck Drivers Forum has previously been accused of bullying foreign drivers, calling for truck companies to employ local drivers. But the group's general-secretary Sifiso Nyathi said that they weren't claiming the attacks. "Every time, since 2018 we are accused about that so if today they accuse us, it's no different. Why do they accuse us? Because we are vocal about what the employer is doing. People are hungry; I'm not supporting what is happening, I condemn that."