As at 30 May 2018 there have been 149 cash in transit robberies to date . In 2006 there was a total of 460 for the year.
In May 2018 20 robberies took place. Vehicles are stopped and then blown open with explosives. The planning is done and executed with military precision, experts say.
Before 1994 there were a lot of robberies that caused the suspicion that “election money” was collected by unknown parties.
Observers ask if there is any possibility that political parties are involved in these orchestrated robberies?
Meanwhile, security guards in the Eastern Cape have averted a robbery by pushing one vehicle off the road and driving to the Kinkelbos police station.
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