Two security guards escorting City workers were shot dead last week because protection is their business, say extortionists
Security guards in a small white bakkie escort a City of Cape Town refuse truck in Philippi. Extortion gangs say they, and not security companies, should be paid to protect City workers. Photo: Sandiso Phaliso
The security companies were doing what the gangs are “supposed to be doing”, and by attacking them “we are showing they are useless”, the extortionists said. The gangsters said what they wanted from the authorities was “a few thousands of rands from the millions of rands that they are paying the security companies”.
The City staff and residents fled for their lives, but both security guards were fatally wounded. A City staff member was also injured in a hard fall. He said various City services were “severely impacted by criminal attacks” in parts of Philippi, including in Kosovo informal settlement, where a stormwater upgrading project was under way.
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