ASSOCIATION NEWS
SASA UPDATE
Update from SASA From the desk of Tony Botes, SASA National Administrator.
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embership SASA is pleased to confirm that, with very few exceptions, all Gold members have qualified for renewal and paid their annual fees for the 2021/2 membership year. Our Gold members, whose employee numbers collectively make up our representivity at the National Bargaining Council for the Private Security Sector (Bargaining Council), now account for more than 140 000 security officers, despite the loss/reduction of contracts as a result of unprecedented retrenchments during the Covid-19 pandemic period. A number of new members have already joined, and more are being processed.
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International reciprocal partnerships As permitted in the SASA constitution, we are in the process of concluding reciprocal agreements with similar associations internationally. The Security Association of Namibia (SAN) has already signed up and, by the time this goes to press, CAPSI (Central Association for Private Security India) will have come on board, too. Further, we’re in talks with associations in Singapore, Botswana and elsewhere. Although private security legislation may differ vastly in various countries, we believe that we face numerous common challenges, which may be mitigated or even eliminated through ongoing interaction with our international brothers.
PSIRA (Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority) It is of great concern that PSIRA has seen fit to introduce what we believe to be excessively increased annual and administrative fees for their financial year from April 2021 to March 2022. SASA, together with our colleagues at SANSEA (South African National Security Employers’ Association), have taken legal advice and are in ongoing communication with the Authority via our legal representatives. Although PSIRA did hold virtual consultative meetings with the private security industry at large with regard to their proposed new fees – with both SASA and SANSEA submitting detailed
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