{"id":40043,"date":"2025-10-07T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/14-abnormal-trucks-have-been-impounded-and-seven-foreign-nationals-truck-drivers-detained\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:50:33","slug":"14-abnormal-trucks-have-been-impounded-and-seven-foreign-nationals-truck-drivers-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/14-abnormal-trucks-have-been-impounded-and-seven-foreign-nationals-truck-drivers-detained\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Abnormal Trucks have been impounded and seven foreign nationals truck drivers detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mkhondeni RTI Testing Centre, Pietemaritzburg:<\/p>\n<p>We wish to announce that through #NenzaniLaEzweni operation, our energized team from Road Traffic Inspectorate has impounded 14 Abnormal Load Vehicles for the violation of National Road Traffic Act and immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>From the seven foreign truck drivers, four are undocumented and have been detained. <\/p>\n<p>We are currently verifying the documents of the other three.<\/p>\n<p>They are from the following countries: <\/p>\n<p>1. Malawi (4)<br \/>\n2. Zimbabwe (2)<br \/>\n3. Zambia (1)<\/p>\n<p>Critically, we wish to commend that team for uncovering what could be the biggest racket ever involving the transportation of undeclared and unverified goods by undocumented foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The Department could have lost R200 000 in undeclared goods over the past two hours. <\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that in one month, between R2 million to R3 million in revenue is lost through this racket.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I mandated the RTI to have no mercy on undocumented foreign truck drivers. They&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74828&#038;page=14-abnormal-trucks-have-been-impounded-and-seven-foreign-nationals-truck-drivers-detained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mkhondeni RTI Testing Centre, Pietemaritzburg: We wish to announce that through #NenzaniLaEzweni operation, our energized team from Road Traffic Inspectorate has impounded 14 Abnormal Load Vehicles for the violation of National Road Traffic Act and immigration laws. From the seven foreign truck drivers, four are undocumented and have been detained. We are currently verifying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/558094090_1275757781256795_6563608473641808031_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/558094090_1275757781256795_6563608473641808031_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}