Cash-in-transit (CIT) work means collecting and delivering clients' cash in an armoured vehicle, armed, in what G4S's own advert calls a high-risk environment. The adverts ask for PSIRA registration (Fidelity's team leader advert asks for at least Grade C), a CIT certificate and a SAPS firearm competency for business purposes. Drivers also need the right licence, plus a professional driving permit for goods vehicles over 3,500 kg. Your cash in transit salary floor isn't the guarding one: the road freight bargaining council's Cash in Transit Chamber sets weekly minimums of R3,928.11 to R5,423.65 from 1 March 2026. CIT companies rarely publish pay, so only trust a figure that's in the company's own advert or your written offer. Below is what each requirement involves, how CIT pay is built, which companies run CIT in Cape Town, and how to avoid paying for fake courses or placements.
Fidelity's advert for a CIT crewman at its Parow branch sums up the job: collect and deliver clients' money, and provide proof of every delivery and collection. SBV, which calls its crews protection officers, adds moving cash between the Central Bank and cash centres and keeping ATMs balanced, cleared and refilled.
Adverts use titles such as CIT crewman, CIT crew, CIT driver and CIT team leader. Whatever the title, the job is armed. Under the Firearms Control Act, a security company may only hand its business firearms to an officer in its service who holds a competency certificate, which is why that certificate shows up on the CIT adverts quoted below.
Employers expect experience before they put you on a vehicle. G4S's CIT crew advert asks for two to three years and lists earlier high-risk work as an advantage, and Fidelity's CIT team leader advert asks for at least three years in the security industry or a similar role. If you've only ever done static guarding, plan to get armed or other high-risk experience first.
The regulators set some of these, and each employer adds its own on top, so read every advert for the extras.
PSIRA's registration page says an individual must be 18 or older, must not have committed any of the criminal offences scheduled in the Private Security Industry Regulation Act, must have completed training at an accredited training centre, and must pay the registration fee. That page doesn't set a grade for CIT work. The employers do: Fidelity's CIT team leader advert asks for a minimum of Grade C, and G4S's crew advert asks for PSIRA registration. Plan on Grade C.
PSIRA's Training Division lists the security courses it has gazetted. Next to the Grade E to C and Grade B to A courses there's a separate course for assets in transit and reaction services (Board Notice 25 of 1996). PSIRA accredits the training centres and instructors that present its courses, and it points to SASSETA for the sector's NQF programmes. The adverts call the end result a CIT certificate, so make sure the course you pay for leads to one from an accredited centre.
G4S's advert asks for a valid SAPS firearm competency for business purposes, and Fidelity's asks for at least a handgun competency for business purposes. Before G4S employs you, it also wants a medical certificate, no older than three months, confirming you're fit to carry and use a firearm.
Drivers need a licence for the vehicle class. The Western Cape Government says you also need a professional driving permit (PrDP) to drive any goods vehicle with a gross vehicle mass over 3,500 kg. To get one you need a medical fitness certificate and a police clearance, which the driving licence testing centre arranges by taking your fingerprints. The advert should state the licence code and whether a PrDP is required. If it doesn't, ask before the interview.
Fidelity's CIT adverts ask for a clear criminal record, and G4S puts shortlisted candidates through vetting and screening. A police clearance certificate takes time to come back from SAPS, so start yours before you apply.
CIT minimums don't come from the guarding wage table. The private security sector's main agreement (NBCPSS) excludes assets-in-transit work that falls under the National Bargaining Council for the Road Freight and Logistics Industry (NBCRFLI), and since 22 May 2023 that council's registered scope has listed cash-in-transit jobs by name.
The NBCRFLI circular of 3 February 2026 sets these Cash in Transit Chamber minimums from 1 March 2026 to 28 February 2027. They're weekly rates. The monthly column is our own arithmetic (weekly rate x 4.33), before deductions:
| Class in the agreement | Minimum per week | Roughly per month (x 4.33) |
|---|---|---|
| Custodian | R5,423.65 | R23,484 |
| Vehicle guard | R4,728.76 | R20,476 |
| Security officer I | R4,728.76 | R20,476 |
| Security officer II | R4,728.76 | R20,476 |
| Security officer III | R3,928.11 | R17,009 |
The council's scope notice puts CIT radio controllers in Security officer III, and tactical support officers and team leaders in Security officer II. The table has no separate CIT driver line, so the class written into your contract decides your floor. If you were already working in one of these grades before 1 March 2026, the same circular gives you a 6% increase calculated on your actual wage.
Script for the offer stage: "Which NBCRFLI class and grade is this post, and what's the weekly rate?" If the answer is that the company isn't covered by the road freight council, ask which agreement does set your pay, and get it in writing.
Search results for CIT pay are full of Facebook posts and anonymous answers, so treat them as rumour. A company figure counts only when it's in that company's own advert or your written offer.
None of the companies below publishes CIT pay on its own website or careers portal (checked 27 October 2026). If you're searching for one company's CIT pay, go by the table above and whatever that company puts in writing.
Fidelity Cash Solutions is the cash business of Fidelity Services Group, and Fidelity's website sends jobseekers to its careers portal at fidelityservicesgroup.simplify.hr. Its Parow branch advertised a CIT crewman post on this site in 2026. If you've been searching for Fidelity's cash in transit salary per month, the adverts we read show no salary at all.
IZI's own site says IZI Africa acquired G4S Cash Solutions (SA) in 2025 and merged it with IZI Cash to form IZI South Africa in 2026. It also lists Paarl among the branches it's opening in 2026. Adverts on the G4S careers portal still carry the G4S name, and the CIT crew advert there shows its salary as ZAR 0, which is a blank field, not an offer. For IZI pay, ask at the interview and get the figure in writing.
SBV posts its protection officer jobs on its own career portal (sbv.mcidirecthire.com) and on LinkedIn, and says it doesn't advertise jobs on WhatsApp, Facebook or X. Its careers page doesn't publish pay.
Armed response sits on the guarding side. Pay follows the NBCPSS minimum for your grade, plus an armed response allowance of R10.50 per shift from 1 March 2026. The PSIRA course list puts reaction services in the same gazetted course as assets in transit.
Fidelity ADT's Cape Town armed response advert (closing 27 November 2026) asks for Grade 10, PSIRA Grade C, two years in the security industry, a handgun competency for business purposes, a driver's licence held for at least two years, a clean record and agreement to regular criminal checks.
Work through these before you apply:
Paying an accredited centre for a course is normal. Paying anyone to get you a job isn't: the Employment Services Act says no person may charge a work seeker a fee for employment services, and a private employment agency may not take money out of your wages for placing you.
From 1 March 2026 to 28 February 2027, the road freight bargaining council's Cash in Transit Chamber sets weekly minimums of R3,928.11 to R5,423.65, depending on the class in your contract. Multiplied by 4.33, that is roughly R17,009 to R23,484 a month before deductions. Companies rarely publish CIT pay, so get your class and weekly rate in writing before you sign.
Expect PSIRA registration (Fidelity's CIT team leader advert asks for at least Grade C), a CIT certificate from an accredited training centre, a SAPS firearm competency for business purposes and a clear criminal record. G4S also asks for a recent medical certificate confirming you're fit to carry a firearm. Drivers need the right licence code, plus a PrDP for goods vehicles over 3,500 kg.
G4S's CIT crew advert asks for Grade 10 as the school minimum, so that advert doesn't ask for matric or a degree. What matters more is your PSIRA grade, the CIT course from a PSIRA-accredited centre (PSIRA gazetted an assets-in-transit and reaction services course in Board Notice 25 of 1996) and a firearm competency for business purposes. Fidelity's CIT team leader advert also asks for three years in security or a similar role.
SBV doesn't publish pay on its careers page (checked 27 October 2026). For CIT work, the minimum is the road freight bargaining council's Cash in Transit Chamber minimum for your class, from R3,928.11 to R5,423.65 a week from 1 March 2026. SBV points jobseekers to its own career portal and LinkedIn, and says it doesn't advertise jobs on WhatsApp, Facebook or X.
Fidelity ADT's Cape Town armed response advert (closing 27 November 2026) asks for Grade 10, PSIRA Grade C, two years in the security industry, a handgun competency for business purposes, a driver's licence held for at least two years and a clean criminal record. PSIRA's reaction services training sits in the same gazetted course as assets in transit.