The Gupta family believes the police can no longer protect them from furious protesters and are now keeping an armoured military vehicle on their property in case they need a quick escape.

City Press’ sister newspaper, Rapport, published pictures of the vehicle manufactured by a Boksburg company in which the family owns a stake.

Yesterday, the family abandoned an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court in which they wanted the court to ban any further protests outside their Saxonwold estate.