Experts are divided on a cash-in-transit security guard’s use of deadly power at a mall in Soweto this week.
A cash-in-transit (CIT) security guard is now on the wrong side of the law after he shot a man dead in a scuffle at a Soweto shopping mall.
Violent cash heists and the bombing of armoured vehicles are on the rise, with 217 attacks across the country between January and August, according to statistics from the Cash-In-Transit Association of SA (Citasa).
With gangs of heavily armed robbers targeting both cash vans in transit and security officials when they carry boxes of money to and from ATMs, guards remain on high-alert.
In this case, experts are divided on the use of deadly force which saw the unarmed man gunned down.
News24 previously reported that the altercation played out at Jabulani Mall in Soweto when a man allegedly refused to give way to a security guard loading money into an ATM.
The incident happened on Wednesday, and the security guard was arrested and charged with murder.
