The Mozambican Transport Minister called for no retaliation for attacks in South Africa, when commenting on the arson of a South African passenger van, without casualties, a few kilometers later to leave Maputo. “That is not [being] Mozambican: burning, retaliating by burning the goods of others, is not what identifies us, our strategy can never be a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye”, said Mateus Magala, on the sidelines of a conference of industry press. “We condemn what has been happening in South Africa and the government is involved” with the South African authorities, he said. Mateus Magala said that “there is a promise” that the violence against Mozambican public transport vehicles in KwaZulu-Natal “will stop, but that’s it: it seems that on Saturday there was a similar accident and perhaps that is what provoked this reaction”. “We want to appeal to all Mozambicans to remain calm, the citizenship that differentiates us and believe that the government and all living forces will find a solution to overcome this evil”, said the Minister of Transport. The official highlighted that Mozambique and South Africa “have historical relations, they are brothers and this brotherhood we have to maintain, it has a lot of value”. Unknown people set fire to a van with South African registration in the village of Bela Vista, Maputo province, southern Mozambique, after a wave of violence against vehicles with Mozambican registration in the neighboring country. The white car was completely destroyed, Lusa testified, while what was left of the vehicle was towed to a workshop by a civilian called to the scene by the police. Populars told Lusa that the individuals who set the car on fire ordered the passengers who were in the car to get out. The vehicle was heading towards Maputo-Durban, in South Africa, when it was barricaded and later destroyed. Today’s incident is similar to those that Mozambican operators have been targeting, in an area of KwaZulu-Natal, about 100 kilometers to the south, on the same road, but now in South African territory, crossing the Ponta do Ouro border. In the last month, more than a dozen public transport vehicles with Mozambican license plates were set on fire by unknown persons, in an action reported by the public as a response to a wave of vehicle thefts, supposedly smuggled into Mozambique. (Lusa) Source: Carta de Moçambique
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