National government spending R16.9 billion on private security contracts, still pressing on with plans to destroy private security industry
Unable to rely on the South African Police Service to secure the state, national government departments and other organs of state are currently engaged in hundreds of long-term private security contracts of various lengths, costing the fiscus over R16,9 billion. This amount does not include the dozens of month-to-month contracts to which various departments and state-owned entities are party. It also does not include the private security contracts in which provincial and local governments are engaged.
Source: polity.org.za
