ADTF: South African trucks must be driven by SA drivers, not foreigners
The All Truck Drivers Foundation (ADTF) has called on South African truck companies to employ only local drivers.
ATDF is a group of local truck drivers advocating for 100% employment of local truckers.
The organisation embarked on a march in Durban on Monday, demanding an end to the employment of foreign truck drivers in South Africa.
“It was a march together with Umkhonto We Sizwe, students together with street vendors, supporting us as SA truck drivers and our concern of what is happening in this country,” says ADTF’s secretary Sifiso Nyathi.
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“What happens in South Africa is that there is a habit that employers create, and no one points a finger at employers of South Africa and instead, they are arrogant and their arrogance is that they keep on hiring foreigners while we have many drivers who are not working.”
Nyathi has dismissed claims of xenophobia.
“Here in South Africa, when people of this country put a concern on what is happening, they always say xenophobia. We know that poem, it is a poem to get people to shut down what is burning you as a South African, the pain you are feeling under foreigners. You must keep quiet because it is hate speech.”
The march came amid the torching of some 30 trucks in several provinces since Thursday last week.
