Durban – Police in KwaZulu-Natal have arrested the All Truck Driver Discussion board South Africa (ATDF-SA) nationwide workplace bearer for inciting violence alongside the N3 southbound in Bergville.
Police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda mentioned the arrest was made within the early hours of Saturday, 30 Might 2026.
Colonel Netshiunda mentioned police have been conducting patrols alongside the N3 after they observed visitors shifting slowly and finally coming to a standstill.
“Police went to analyze and located that there have been about 10 individuals who have been stopping vans,” the spokesperson mentioned.
“Realising the presence of the police, the suspects fled into the bushes and deserted their automobile, a white Isuzu bakkie, leaving all doorways open.”
Preliminary investigations uncovered that the bakkie belonged to a distinguished ATDF-SA workplace bearer.
Contained in the bakkie, police discovered an ATDF-SA banner and stones.
Whereas on the scene, a suspicious white VW Polo was noticed on the N3 northbound.
“Police adopted it up and located that it had come to choose up the proprietor of the deserted bakkie,” Colonel Netshiunda mentioned.
“The driving force of the Polo and his passenger, each recognized as truck drivers, have been arrested along with the driving force of the bakkie they’d come to rescue.
“The bakkie proprietor could possibly be linked with the stoning of a bus on the N3 Colenso interchange, moments earlier than he was arrested.”
The suspects have been being processed, and extra expenses could possibly be added.
Earlier this month, ATDF-SA introduced a protest deliberate for right now, Saturday, 30 Might 2026, on main routes N2 and N3.
The grievances embody opposition to the employment of undocumented overseas nationals within the trucking business, poor enforcement of labour/immigration legal guidelines, and considerations over the upcoming Administrative Adjudication of Highway Site visitors Offences demerit system.
