Truckers in South Africa went on protests today for companies employed foreign workers. There are reports that traffic between Gauteng and Kwazulo Natal and Johannesburg and Durban is disrupted.

A source of ours said that there was already talk of the strike occurring in social networks.

Images to which MZNews has had access show a long stretch of trucks profiled for several kilometers on the N3 in South Africa.

"Foreign truck drivers are being put ahead of South Africans. [They should] go to countries where there is a skills shortage; instead they come to South Africa where there is an unemployment crisis," said Sifiso Nyathi of the All Truck Drivers Forum and Allied South Africa.

"We support the truckers protesting today. We are all frustrated," he remarked.

Traffic on the N3 Toll Road (near the center of Gauteng) is currently obstructed near Makiti - between Warden and Villiers in the Free State - by trucks blocking the road in both directions.

"The traffic backlog is exceeding 5km in each direction. There is no indication as to when the road will be reopened," said, Thania Dhoogra of the N3 Toll Concession.