Radio quiz win sets mum on career in security industry
A local security group has helped make a woman's dream come true by providing her training and employment.
SOUTH Africa’s late President, Nelson Mandela famously said “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”.
Realising that, resident, Nelisiwe Sikobi, sought to get an education that she could use as a weapon to change her circumstances.
Unemployed with two children to look after, Sikobi, (36), took on East Coast Radio’s (ECR) Grand Challenge one morning, with the aim of winning the challenge and using the money to assist her in completing a Security Training Course.
“I always listen to the ECR Grand Challenge in the mornings and I was fascinated with the questions and excited by the opportunity of winning money just from answering ten questions. I was not expecting to win on the morning that I called in, but I intended on doing my best. Fortunately I answered all the questions correctly and when the breakfast team asked what I would do with that money, I told them that I planned to enroll on a security course,” she said.
Little did Sikobi know, management at Suncoast, who are also sponsors of the ECR Grand Challenge, were listening in.
They later got in touch with Sikobi, offering to assist in enrolling her on the course with their security supplier.
“When I was told that Suncoast wanted to assist with the arrangements I was so happy, I could not believe it, it was a complete surprise!” she said.
Sikobi was enrolled on a Fidelity Security Group sponsored course at its training college, where she studied the E, D and C security gradings, which she passed.
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“I was jumping with joy when I got a call from Fidelity this week letting me know that I had passed and asking me to come and collect my certificate,” said Sikobi.
Fidelity Security Group will also be assisting Sikobi to register with the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA), the authority that regulates the private security industry.
Furthermore, Fidelity Security has placed Sikobi into a training programme in their retail sites at Gateway Shopping Centre in Umhlanga and they will be offering her full time employment.
Group executive of the New Business Development Fidelity Security Group, Malcolm Stephens, said: “Nelisiwe has been a trooper through the entire process, she has aced her examinations and has shown the hunger to succeed and to build a better life for herself and her family. As an organisation that continually strives for success, we are proud to have walked this journey with Nelisiwe and to have been able to assist her in realising her dream.”
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