KZN MEC calls for action against looters at crash sites
KZN's Transport MEC says people who loot trucks and other vehicles at accident scenes must be dealt with.
On Friday, seven school children and their driver lost their lives on the N2 near Mandeni.
Their car collided with a supermarket truck.
Not long after, a group of locals started picking through the contents of the mangled truck as it lay on its side down an embankment.
MEC Siboniso Duma, who visited the crash site, says the spirit of uBuntu needs to be revived in communities.
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"We can't have eight people who have just perished on earth, then you have [the] audacity of looting. So, it's something that must be avoided. We understand the issue of poverty that is driving these people, but I think we just have to deal with the consciousness among them.
The reality is that you must be touched whenever there is someone who's involved in [an] accident and who has just lost their live. So, we discourage [this behaviour]."
Ward Councillor Dumisani Mthembu, commenting on the crash, said it was not an isolated accident on that stretch of the road.
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"This is a hotspot because there has been too many accidents here. From Zinkwazi up to Mthunzini, a lot of accidents have occurred. I think the department needs to do something."
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