Private security provider Fidelity Services Group has responded to media reports about an emergency security contract it was awarded when André de Ruyter was CEO.
Fidelity Services Group CEO Wahl Bartmann has confirmed that the company was awarded a three-month emergency contract with Eskom to provide comprehensive security services for the beleaguered power utility.Most recently, City Press, citing officials from rival NSA Global, reported on Sunday that the alleged R500 million contractBartmann explained that the contract was comprehensive, including land and air support, tactical intervention units, and crowd control.
At one stage, the attacks got so bad that Eskom called a media briefing, during which public enterprises minister Pravin GordhanGordhan said at the time that the protests were the main reason South Africa had slipped into constant stage 6 load-shedding. This included land and air support with helicopter and tactical drone surveillance capabilities, specialised armoured personnel carriers, tactical intervention units, crowd control, and access control.
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