Des Erasmus
The Road Freight Association (RFA) has said that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s crackdown on employers hiring undocumented foreign nationals will have little effect in the sector unless government targets unregistered and non-compliant operators instead of repeatedly auditing companies already known to authorities.
RFA chief executive Gavin Kelly said on Tuesday that the association warned the Presidency in 2018 and 2022 about the employment of undocumented foreign nationals in the road freight and logistics industry, but very little had been done about it.
“A Presidential Task Team (involving the then Ministers of Police, Labour and Transport) was convened – which included representatives of the afore-mentioned departments, the ATDF-SA (the prime voice for previously – now unemployed – persons / citizens from the road freight and logistics sector, union representation and the registered employer organisations within the sector),” Kelly said in a statement.
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