South Africa: Deadly Attacks on Foreign Truck Drivers

Expand Members of the All Truck Drivers Forum hold a banner that reads, “South Africa First Foreign Drivers Must Fall. We Will Die For Our Country We Want 100% South African Drivers In The Trucking Industry,” outside of the Pietermaritzburg High Court on July 18, 2019. © Human Rights Watch 2019 (Johannesburg) – The South African government should take urgent measures to protect foreign national truck drivers from violence, intimidation, and harassment in the country’s cycle of xenophobic violence. More than 200 people – mostly foreign truck drivers – have been killed in South Africa since…

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