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Coal truckers stop traffic to protest tax
GOVERNMENT has until 8 March to get back to coal truckers after promising to do so within period of seven days on 1 March, when a coal truck driver’s protest caused traffic to stand still for hours on the main highway between Pretoria and Johannesburg. This after the South African Renewable Energy Council said the reduction of coal use by 10-million tonnes per annum was state policy and global experience showed that renewable projects created more jobs. Coal Transportation Forum chairman Steven Mokwana told Business Day up to 1million direct and indirect jobs would be at stake if South Africa's electricity generator Eskom cut delivery costs to coal-fired plants by generating electricity using alternatives to coal fired plants. Drivers from over 52 fleets joined the protest and spokesperson for the Coal Transporters Forum Mary Phadi told News24 did protest went as planned. “We didn’t have any incident and everything we planned came out perfectly,” Nearly 250 trucks descended on Pretoria in the morning, blocking all roads leading
CCFT drivers in an historic protest against new a tax that can lose drivers their jobs. Photo: Lizeka Tandwa into the CBD as they made closure of coal mines and job their way to Marabastad. losses. “Our most important Once they had neatly parked demands to the president are at a field used by Putco to attend to the job losses. buses in Marabastad, they Make sure mine houses and made their way to the Union power stations are not Buildings in mini-bus taxis closed,” Phadi said. to deliver a memorandum to Phadi said it would be President Jacob Zuma’s irresponsible for Eskom to office. sign those agreements with She said the protest was independent power legal and no strong-arm producers. “This is not a tactics were used to get it political statement. This is a approved. An official from message to the president to the Presidency signed the say, please can you make document, in which the sure you slow down the truckers called for Eskom to process of signing with IPPs put the brakes on signing so that we stay in business, agreements with independent instead of making sure all the power producers. They mines close, turning feared it would lead to the Witbank, into a ghost town.”
Seeing the light after the Waterval-Boven tunnel
TRAC last month donated six top-of-the-range NightSearcher Explorer 800 Rechargeable LED Flashlights to Malalane's traffic officers. These hi-tech flashlights are water and shock
resistant and enables the officers to do their work at night like it is day. Provincial Traffic Inspector Joseph Matshaphala, thanked the toll road operating company on behalf of his
colleagues and said the flashlights will make a notable difference in the department’s efficiency during night-time incidents and situations which in turn will benefit road users and TRAC. -- DR.
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