Terrifying video has emerged from South Africa of an expletive-ridden altercation between a man wielding a wooden stick and another motorist.

In the video, filmed on September 5 in the Cape Winelands, filmer Egan Ezra is confronted in his car by another driver for not maintaining the correct distance between vehicles.

Getting out of his vehicle - which has a girl seated in the front passenger seat - and grabbing what appears to be a pick-handle‚ the aggressor approaches Ezra and screams in Afrikaans: “Ek sal jou f****n dood bliksem‚ jy ry soos n p**s”.

Local reports translate this loosely as: “I will f****n beat you to death. You drive like a p**s.”

Happily, the two later reconciled in another video posted online, in which Ezra writes: "Forgiveness. That's the punchline."