The Western Cape Ministers of Transport and Public Works, Bonginkosi Madikizela, and Community Safety, Albert Fritz, strongly condemn the looting and attacks on trucks in De Doorns and Worcester on Thursday morning.
The N1 highway in De Doorns had to be closed after trucks and vehicles were stoned during a protest action. Two trucks were looted by locals during this incident.
Footage doing the rounds on social media shows how protesters helped themselves to Flat Screen TV sets which were loaded on some of the trucks.
In a separate incident on Robertson Road in Worcester, another truck was looted by locals after it was involved in an accident.
Madikizela described the looting as acts of criminality.
He says these trucks are soft targets for criminals who attack them, leading to loss of transported goods, damage to vehicles, injury to drivers and sometimes to the loss of life.
Photo: Screengrab from viral video
