Jobs barometer
Delivery driver operating
from Parklands, Cape Town, R1 2,000 to R22,000/m. Code 1 0 driver from Durban North, R1 0,000m with medical aid, pension, and bonus. Dump Truck driver operating in Newcastle, R1 4,500/m EC (Code 1 4) long distance driver operating from: - Rustenburg and Mafikeng, R1 5,000 to R1 8 000/m - Carletonville, R22,000/m - Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Kimberley, R1 8,000 to R25,000/m medical aid, pension, bonus and travel allowance. Driver trainees , R1 ,000 to R6000/m.
Contact us
Compiled in KZN by Alwyn Viljoen, Lunga Sibaya and Moses Makhathini. Whatsapp, or SMS your views to:
082 4589 332
Email news and photos to:
thedriverdigest@gmail.com Blog and more on:
www.drivernews.co.za Find past issues on:
www.issuu.com/thedriver
The Driver subscribes to the SA Press Code that prescribes news that is truthful, accurate, fair and balanced. If we don’t live up to the code please contact the Press Ombudsman on 011-484 3512/8 or on ombudsman@presscouncil.org.za.
News to inspire professional drivers of all size vehicles in southern Africa
July 201 8
'No more slave wages for migrant drivers' MORE than 60 people were arrested after over a 100 truckers blocked South Africa's busiest highway at the bottom of Van Reenen’s pass near the Tugela toll plaza on June 20. Media24 reported SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) spokesperson Zanele Sabela, denied that any of the union's members were involved, but said the protest related to complaints about the employment of foreign truck drivers at lower salaries than local ones. Satawu told the bargaining council for road freight truck drivers this was exploitation and the union called for all truck drivers to earn the same minimum salary of R15,000 a month. At the National Bargaining Council for the Road Freight and Logistics Industry, it was agreed that a task team would look into the employment of foreign nationals in the industry and these and other issues would be revisited at the this month's industry meeting. The task team was set up in
A massive tailback stretched back for tens of kilometres when truckers closed the N3 on June 3, with drivers promising more of the same if the labour department continue to turn a blind eye at fleet operators who employ untrained migrant drivers at slave rates in South Africa. Photos: News24
response to the Mooi River blockades on the same in April. Police arrested 62 people, most of them drivers on charges of public violence and obstructing traffic. The protest on the highway, which carries on average over 8,000 trucks a day, with some sections carrying 10,000 trucvks a day, caused a backup that stretched for many kilometres on both sides of the blockade.
Con Roux, boss at the N3 Toll Concession Company (N3TC) said it took all ofWednesday night to Thursday morning to clear the massive tailback. Roux said some drivers had tampered with their air brake systems, making it unsafe to move their vehicles and pecial rigs had to be brought in to take the heavy trucks off the road. Government's view is not supportive of the drivers, who's
livelihoods are being undercut by migrant drivers who are willing to work for as little as R5000 a month. transport minister Blade Nzimande said the blockade was “sabotage” and police minister Bheki Cele send extra officers to clear the road. A labour department is meanwhile "look into the issue". Several drivers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Driver the will continue with such protests if the labour department continue to turn a blind eye to operators who employ migrant drivers at slave rates.
"These drivers come here with fake papers and no experience and take our jobs. Then we get crashes like that Fields Hill one, where that guy, Sanele, did not know how the engine brake works in the Volvo his was driving, and he ended up crashing and killing all those people. That is what we are protesting against," said a driver speaking in isiZulu.