TT Ngwenya, a former cash-in-transit guard, was badly injured when the van he was working on was attacked by a gang in 2021.
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‘I knew I could be killed’: This cash van guard is just one of South Africa’s crime wave victims
For South Africans, normality is a sliding scale. Record electricity blackouts and sustained water outages have crushed businesses, and caused havoc in hospitals and schools nationwide. It’s common to see car-sized potholes in the suburbs of Johannesburg as workmen weld burst pipes. Traffic light outages are a daily occurrence.
