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The burned-out truck on the side of the road was the only trace of the dramatic cash-in-transit (CIT) theft on the N4. Residents as far away as Centurion and the Moot, km from the N4 Watermeyer off-ramp, reported hearing gunfire and feeling the impact of explosions. Dean Venter was driving from Pretoria East to Pretoria when he narrowly avoided the violence that erupted on the highway on Thursday night when a gang seized on a CIT van. When the explosives went off, they were roughly five kilometers ahead of the robbery, according to Venter. “If we left five minutes later, we would have been in …