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Trucker dies after stone incident

Oct 9, 2012 | Sapa | 72 comments

A Cape Town trucker was declared brain dead after being hit in the head by a stone thrown into his vehicle

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The Cape Times reported that Gary Stewart, 41, had been on life support after his skull was fractured and he sustained severe brain damage last Wednesday.

The assistant driver was on the N2 when the stone was thrown through his windscreen and hit the back of his head.

Drivers taking part in a national strike by SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union members were thought to be responsible.

On Monday, the family decided to switch his life support off and donate his organs.

Seven trucks were reportedly torched in Cape Town on Monday, in Gugulethu, Khayelitsha and Philippi, as parties continued negotiations.

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Oct 9, 2012

Naka-la-Tlou

I wonder who from the family members was the 1st to say '-switch it off' '. Staying off work is a strike on its own. WHY THROW STONES, AT PEOPLE NOGAL????? We r a truly violent society and the police follow suit under the badge.
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Oct 9, 2012

ntyantya

I just wonder how this people sleep at night knowing that they have killed someone. It won't solve anything by killing their fellow collegues. As it is people are living under thier means and barely survive. If all the basic food price is going high because of this strike then meaning that thje poorer will have nothing to eat at the end of the day and crime statistics and the rand value is surely dropping. Wish this can come to an end otherwise many holdholds will be left without breadwinners like this man.
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Oct 9, 2012

Printa

He is white is it not? Hw was not striking andithi?
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Oct 9, 2012

jerico

is this the south africa that every asked for, this is the trash life and we are in the middle of the crash for it.
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Oct 9, 2012

MommaC

Printa

JIRRIE TOG. Is this really an issue in your life? His skin colour is your major focus here?

He wasn't striking because he wasn't part of the union. It was a privately owned truck and not part of a fleet. Not every truck on the road is part of the Road Freight Organisation ------ Muppet
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Oct 9, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

This is sad......... they (strikers) want us to sympathise with them (for a better living wage) but they go on a rampage, behaving like savages and k!lling .....................


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Oct 9, 2012

ChampRef

Why kill each other if you want money? After killing, what do you get idiots? Ag, why maar, why?
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Oct 9, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

@MommaC
The Star featured the whole story, not the the snippet from Sowetan.

No wonder we are such a warped up nation, we racialise everything #shocking#
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Oct 9, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

ntyantya - "I just wonder how this people sleep at night knowing that they have killed someone."


They dont f***ing care.
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Oct 9, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

40 trucks have been destroyed already. Another person had a brain operation after his truck got stoned, and this person died at the hands of the f***ing scuuumbags.
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