“South African authorities should urgently intervene to stop the unlawful, unprovoked and violent attacks, and harassment of foreign truck drivers and bring the perpetrators to justice,” said Dewa Mavhinga, southern Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Any problems in the trucking industry, including undocumented drivers, are for the relevant authorities to address, and there is no defense to groups committing such violent, horrific crimes,” he added, referring to a South African local association of truck drivers. The group allegedly attacked foreign truck drivers with Molotov cocktails, stones, knives and guns, killing many, and forcing others out of jobs. Economic migrants in South Africa, documented or not, bear the brunt of many problems within the country, including high unemployment. Many are migrants from across the African continent. HRW says attackers claimed to be associated with All Truck Drivers Foundation (ADTF), a local trucking group, which says on Facebook that it wants “all SA citizen truck drivers to join and unite to save our jobs from being taken away from us [by] foreign nationals”. It uses the campaign “foreign drivers must fall”, mimicking the 2015 #FeesMustFall student protests in South Africa. At the beginning of June, ADTF called for all foreign truck… Read full this story
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