The trucking community plans a protest if significant progress is not evident by the end of this weekend with getting 70 Namibian drivers released from Zambia. Truck owners and members of the Namibian Chamber of Commerce and Industries, met with Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, last Thursday, to brief her on the current situation. The delegation, led by spokesperson of the Corridor Transporters’ Forum, Jacques Steenkamp, told Minister Nandi-Ndaitwah that definitely, no truckers have been released yet, and no progress seems to have been made. The Minister then noted down all the affected truck drivers’ names, with passport and truck details, promising to take up the matter again with the Zambian authorities. Steenkamp later told NBC News that, if the truckers are not back by Sunday, other truckers in the country will be joined by friends and sympathizers of those who have now been detained for five months in Zambia. They will hold a protest action at the Zambian High Commission in Windhoek and will demand the immediate release of the drivers to return to their families. They will also have a petition, informing the Zambian authorities of their intention to similarly impound Zambian trucks and detain their drivers. Steenkamp says this is because the Zambians have been releasing other countries’ trucks on condition they would not use the port of Walvis Bay.