WATCH | 'You must take a life, or they take yours': CIT security officers recount horror stories

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Cash-in-transit security officers risk their lives carrying millions of rands on a daily basis.

Despite the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, SA Banking Risk Information Centre stats show a 34% increase in attacks on cash-in-transit trucks in 2020 compared with 2019.

“It's a bad experience because you see the guys coming with firearms and you know you must take a life, or they take yours,” Kotzee says.In August, 19 CIT vans were attacked and in September another 12.IziCash CEO, Albert Erasmus says criminals are playing catch-up. haw says he prays on a daily basis for his life and the lives of his colleagues. Recently he watched a colleague be killed.

 

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But earning peanuts, far less.

Soldiers from other countries are the ones behind this syndicate

Why do we even brand this vehicles that transport money,......why not make something less suspicious

These asswipes always repost their own sheet until it’s stuck in our throats!

Yet the SAPoliceService can't protect them and at the same time wants to take their firearms. MYANC ParliamentofRSA ANCParliament Our_DA EFFSouthAfrica VFPlus

Is their salaries equivalent to the risk of losing their lives that they face everyday?

Why is money not being transported by Helicopter surely that would be safer and quicker.

We need more Women in CIT.

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