DA mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay, Athol Trollip, has laid charges after a Port Elizabeth motorist filmed himself knocking a pizza delivery rider off his bike.
During the incident the as yet unidentified motorists is heard on the video making racist remarks as he waits at a traffic light and just moments before he knocks the rider off his bike as they pull away.
The pizza delivery man, Omoefe Acboriyede, had reported the incident to his employers as a minor incident.
Trollip, who's also the DA provincial leader in the Eastern Cape, says this kind of abhorent behaviour has no place in our contry.
He says he's opened a case of crimen injuria with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
"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.
Here is the video:
