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Due to the collapse of the rail transport system, almost all suppliers are currently dependent on truck delivery for goods.

The roads of the country testify to the large number of heavy trucks moving day and night between centers to find food and consumables at outlets.

The recent months’ attacks on large trucks and their associated arson are hampering the industry. The Freight Association of SA announced in May that 1,300 trucks were damaged or destroyed in the past year.

Insurance companies now require trucks not to travel on roads between 23:00 and 04:00 due to the danger of hijacking and arson.

The most recent incident in which Bernard Groenewald and his brother-in-law where attacked near Touws Rivier d further elucidated the problem. Groenewald was resting alongside the road when his truck was thrown with a petrol bomb and after he ran away he was physically thrown with a petrol bomb, he is currently being treated in intensive
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One Durban hijacking reported every day over the past week.Blue Security has warned motorists to be on high alert following a spike in Durban hijackings, and a new trend of hijackers attempting to abduct drivers in their vehicles.

Blue Security operations director Brian Jackson said the company had received reports of five hijackings and two attempted hijackings across Durban over the past week alone.

“When considered as an average that is at least one hijacking being reported to our company every day, and this excludes any additional incidents that we don’t hear of, which may be reported to other local security firms and directly to the police,” Jackson said. “What has most concerned us about this latest wave of hijackings in the city, is that a trend has emerged in which hijackers are now attempting to abduct motorists in their vehicles.”

Jackson said in at least two of the recent incidents, hijackers had succeeded in abducting their
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