NUM: KZN companies using open bakkies to transport workers
The National Union of Mineworkers in KZN says some companies are still ignoring passenger safety rules and continue to carry workers on the back of open bakkies.
Two workers from a landscaping company died earlier this month on the R102 in a crash involving a bakkie transporting a group of people.
An unroadworthy truck rear-ended the vehicle.
The union's Muzikayise Zakwe's called for a full investigation and for the company to take responsibility for failing to provide safe transport.
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He says there needs to be strict and uncompromising regulations so that workers aren't forced to travel on the back of bakkies and trucks.
"Our main concern in terms of that is that companies are continuing to use bakkies to carry members.
"If our members are on a vehicle that is not a bakkie they would not have succumbed to death. We cannot afford to lose members while they are using cars that are not designed t carry our members."
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