No security for these guards

● Many security guards who are members of the Private Sector Security Provident Fund have been victims of employers who steal contributions deducted from their wages and they have lodged thousands of complaints with the pension funds adjudicator over the years.

For the year to March, the adjudicator’s office received 2 693 new complaints about this fund. It finalised 1 928 of these of which 782 dealt with withdrawal benefits, adjudicator Muvhango Lukhaimane says.

Lukhaimane says security guards working for Reshebile Aviation and Protection Services at OR Tambo airport, who are reportedly owed R1.2-million in contributions outstanding since July, recently laid 55 complaints.