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Podcast: First Take SA
Episode: SATAWU calls for companies to stop employing undocumented foreign nationals as truck drivers
Description: The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, SATAWU is calling on road freight and logistics companies to stop employing undocumented foreign nationals as truck drivers. SATAWU argues that truck driving is not a specialised skill and insists that such jobs should be reserved for South Africans. The union says it's unacceptable that locals remain unemployed while companies overlook them for positions they are fully capable of performing. Elvis Presslin spoke to Mr. Jack Mazibuko, SATAWU general secretary