Business calls for tough action on truck drivers
In an open letter to Ramaphosa, the Road Freight Association said more than R300 million had already been lost THE private sector has thrown the strongest challenge yet to government’s resolve to keep the economy running as the N3 to Durban’s ports and beyond was again under siege from truck drivers who blocked it at critical areas yesterday. They were pressing demands to stop the employment of foreigners on the roads and the recent fuel price increases. The Road Freight Association (RFA) and Business Unity South Africa (Busa) have called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to deploy the army and police to end the blockades. “We consider this continued disruption of economic activity a crisis and ask the president to intervene to ensure appropriate resources are mobilised to pre-empt these disruptions…