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Mozambican Truck Brivers Block South African Border

Mozambican Truck Brivers Block South African Border

Mozambican road hauliers today cut off the circulation of vehicles at the Ponta de Ouro border with South Africa, in protest against insecurity, an association leader told Lusa.

“There is nobody crossing from one side to the other, the circulation is interrupted,” said Adelino Edmundo Santaca, president of the Association of Transporters of Matutuine, a district of which Ponta do Ouro is part.

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Santaca said that Mozambican transporters had concentrated around 40 vehicles at the border in protest against the vandalisation of cars with Mozambican number plates on the South African side.

“On the South African side, there are many cars stopped, they are not crossing, we have many people,” he stressed.

He said the transporters subsequently moved the vehicles away from the barrier, but the circulation is still interrupted because the South African authorities are keeping the border closed as a precaution.

The drivers decided to withdraw their vehicles after authorities in Maputo province gave assurances that the Mozambican and South African governments were committed to restoring security in the region.

Despite the assurances, “the drivers remain agitated” because they want to be sure that their vehicles will not be vandalised once they cross the border into South Africa.

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Several cars and public transport vehicles with Mozambican registration plates have been torched in South Africa’s Kwazulu-Natal province by unknown persons in recent weeks, in an action described by residents as retaliation for allegedly stolen vehicles in the country being hidden in Mozambique.

The South African police minister, along with senior South African Police Service (SAPS) officials, reviewed the situation of violence on the Ponta do Ouro border with Mozambique’s interior minister in Cape Town on Wednesday, but the results of the meeting were not disclosed.

Apart from the Ponta do Ouro border, the crossing between Mozambique and South Africa is also made through Ressano Garcia, which is the crossing point with the highest flow between the two countries.

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