The driver asks his colleague to cock his rifle as bullets slam into the CIT vehicle. Screenshot. Image: Yusuf Abramjee/Twitter
Hair-raising footage recorded inside a cash-in-transit vehicle under attack on a busy Pretoria road has put a spotlight on the war-like scenarios faced by security officers in SA.
In the three-minute-long video, a security officer is driving with a colleague. Both are wearing bulletproof vests. Several loud bangs signal they are under attack and the driver, who keeps a cool head throughout the ordeal, immediately takes evasive action.
A volley of bullets hits the Land Cruiser but the driver manoeuvres through traffic to escape. His bulletproof side window is partially shattered. He instructs his colleague to grab a rifle and cock it as the chase continues.
Assault rifles were recovered following a shoot-out in Stellenbosch with cash-in-transit robbers. Image: Sourced
A cash-in-transit heist which started in Macassar, Cape Town, on Thursday ended in a shoot-out with the police in Stellenbosch.
Reports emerged at midday of a heist at the Macassar shopping centre involving several robbers armed with assault rifles.
Videos, purportedly depicting the heist, showed men unloading bags from an armoured cash-in-transit van while others pointed firearms at the vehicle’s occupants.
The shopping centre is adjacent to the Macassar police station.
Videos making the rounds of the cash-in-transit heist in Macassar, Cape Town earlier today. Robbers armed with assault rifles were reportedly arrested in Stellenbosch after a police chase. Story to follow @TimesLIVEpic.twitter.com/WrcNRtetPF Aron Hyman (@aron hyman) April 29, 2021
Image: Sourced
A cash-in-transit heist which started in Macassar, Cape Town, on Thursday ended in a shoot-out with the police in Stellenbosch.
Reports emerged at midday of a heist at the Macassar shopping centre involving several robbers armed with assault rifles.
Videos, purportedly depicting the heist, showed men unloading bags from an armoured cash-in-transit van while others pointed firearms at the vehicle’s occupants.
The shopping centre is adjacent to the Macassar police station.
Videos making the rounds of the cash-in-transit heist in Macassar, Cape Town earlier today. Robbers armed with assault rifles were reportedly arrested in Stellenbosch after a police chase. Story to follow @TimesLIVEpic.twitter.com/WrcNRtetPF Aron Hyman (@aron hyman) April 29, 2021
22 April 2021 - 10:56 By Devon Koen The Eastern Cape woman was testifying on behalf of the state in the case involving her son, a suspect in a CIT robbery. File photo. Image: DENEESHA PILLAY
A day before what would have been her son’s 30th birthday, a mother broke down in tears as she looked at a photograph of the young man, shot dead during a high-speed car chase through the streets of Gqeberha after the brazen robbery of a cash-in-transit van.
Testifying on behalf of the state in the high court in Gqeberha on Wednesday, Noengland Boletyeni, 62, of Mqanduli said the last time she saw her son Malibongwe alive had been on May 1 2018.
Up to R1m on offer to nab gang in Cape CIT heist, one suspect caught so far 13 April 2021 - 11:39 By TimesLIVE SBV is offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the culprits involved in a cash heist in Gugulethu on Monday, in which one guard was killed and three wounded. File photo. Image: Masi Losi
A cash reward is on offer to catch the culprits involved in a cash-in-transit heist in the Western Cape, during which one guard was killed and three wounded.
The guards employer, SBV Services, said in a statement on Tuesday it is offering a reward of up to R1m for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the suspects.