Isn’t it illegal to transport like this?

Leslie-Ann James from Helderkruin writes:I wish to voice my concern and disgust at the transport mode of municipal road workers in the area in which I live.

I live on the corner of Ouklip and Wilgerood Roads in Helderkruin, Roodepoort, and day after day these huge truck loads of black workers arrive to do work on the roads nearby.

I have no problem with people having employment.

What really upsets me is how they are transported to and from work by the municipal trucks.

I have in recent weeks noticed one or two of these parked outside the wall of my townhouse filled to capacity, in fact, overcapacity with black human beings waiting to be transported home, wherever that may be, as late as seven in the evening.

There are, I would estimate about 100 people crammed onto the back of these trucks at any one time.

My domestic and I noticed that there are even women among them.

They remind me, sadly, of Jews being carted off to the death camps during the Second World War.

I stand to be corrected, but as far as I know it is illegal to transport human beings in this way?

I picked up the registration no. of one of these trucks, it was CT 79 OP GP.

I don’t think anything will change, very sad indeed.