A Port Elizabeth pizza deliveryman, who was the victim of a racist hit-and-run incident, has laid charges of attempted murder with the police.
Police Colonel Priscilla Naidu said the Debonairs employee Omoefe Acboriyede also laid charges of malicious damage to property and reckless and negligent driving.
Acboriyede was knocked off his motorcycle about a week ago by a motorist who filmed the incident and then posted it online.
In the video, the motorist was heard making racist remarks as he plotted his attack while the two were at a traffic intersection.
As they pulled away the motorist clips Acboriyede's motorcyle. He reportedly told his employer that it was a minor incident.
Meanwhile, Darren Hele, the CEO of Famous Brands which owns Debonairs Pizza's has appealed to the motorist to come forward.
"Obviously we condemn it like everybody else does, Nobody can defend these kind of actions. It's really a terrible incident, on behalf of South Africans it would be really nice if this chap owned up and I think certainly apologise to the greater South Africa and to Omoefe for what he has done in terms of race relations" he said.
Meanwhile the DA mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay, Athol Trollip, laid a charges against motorist on Monday.
Trollip said this abhorrent behaviour had no place in South Africa and the country should not tolerate this behaviour.
"When I saw the video footage of the incident I realised that this was clearly a pre-meditated, racial assault on somebody, simply because of the colour of his skin. There is absolutely no way that the driver knew the person.
He simply took a decision to have a collision with the motor cyclist in order to show him that there is no place for people like him on the road and we cannot tolerate these kinds of incidences, because of that I went to lay the charges" he said.
