Bar blaze bolt from the blue

11 January 2016 - 08:32
By Sipho Masombuka

Gautengers' love of the outdoors has just got a whole lot "dryer". A lightning bolt incinerated a vital source of ice-cold beer when it struck the bar perched at the top of the Hartbeespoort cableway in the Magaliesberg.The lightning hit the bar's wooden deck on Saturday night during a severe storm, which had come as welcome relief from the heat wave.

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