'This is just brutal hatred' - employer after truck driver petrol bombed
A truck driver, who was petrol bombed in the Western Cape is in ICU, his employer said on Monday.
Bernard Groenewald, 50, has serious burn wounds after his truck was targeted on the N1, near Touws River, in the early hours of Sunday.
He and his brother-in-law had pulled over on the side of the highway to rest.
While sleeping, a petrol bomb was thrown through one of the windows, ER24 spokesperson Werner Vermaak said.
Groenewald managed to jump out of the truck but a group of men chased him and threw another petrol bomb directly at him.