News24 reports that a truck driver whose vehicle was petrol bombed in the Western Cape earlier this month has died of his injuries.  

Bernard Groenewald sustained serious burn wounds after his truck was targeted on the N1, near Touws River, in the early hours of 2 June.  He and his brother-in-law had pulled over to the side of the highway to rest.  While they were sleeping, a petrol bomb was thrown through one of the windows.  During the attack, Groenewald managed to jump out of the truck but a group of men chased him and threw another petrol bomb at him.  After the attack, his employer, Yolanda Huddlestone of Huddlestone Logistics, questioned what the authorities were doing to assist trucking companies because there were no safe spots for stopovers, including on the N1 between Beaufort West and Cape Town.  "Our drivers can't rest now because of attacks on their lives.  We are calling on the government to do something because truck drivers are sitting ducks.  This is our livelihood and also a service for the country," she lamented.  No arrests have been made.

• Read the full original of this report at News24
• Read too, Cops tracking leads after death of truck driver who was petrol-bombed, at News24

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