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President Cyril Ramaphosa said he was awaiting a report from intelligence service.

‘Its very hard in South Africa, things are not really going well. And if drivers can say tomorrow that theyre abandoning the trucks, things are going to just get worse because people will not have food to eat,’ says president of the Truckers Association of South Africa, Mary Phadi.

Police Minister Bheki Cele says the police are close to finding the suspects who torched six trucks in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) over the weekend.

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport and the South African National Roads

Three level 2 warnings have been issued for parts of KwaZulu-Natal for Monday.

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.

Five trucks were set alight on the N4 in Mpumalanga on Monday, after six trucks were torched on the N3 in KZN on Sunday morning.

By-South Africans have torched 11 trucks on the N3 highway and the N4 highways over the continued employment by companies of foreign drivers. This happened on the anniversary of similar attacks, which kicked off rioting and vandalism in the province two years ago. The N3 toll road at Van Reenen’s Pass in KwaZulu-Natal was closed…

It is deeply concerning that Law enforcement is nowhere to be found and hot spot areas are not prioritised

This comes as the country marks the second anniversary of the deadly looting that crippled the economy and led to the destruction of infrastructure.