Inmates are seen sitting at the male section of the Johannesburg Correctional Centre also known as Sun City Prison, South Africa, on April 8, 2020. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)
Prison officials hospitalised after they were allegedly stabbed by inmates
Three officials were transferred to hospital after they were allegedly stabbed by prison inmates at the St Albans Correctional Facility.
Inmates are seen sitting at the male section of the Johannesburg Correctional Centre also known as Sun City Prison, South Africa, on April 8, 2020. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)
The Department of Correctional Services has vowed to take decisive action against two inmates who allegedly stabbed officials at the St Albans Correctional Facility in Gqeberha.
The incident happened on Wednesday, 7 December, while breakfast was served in the Medium B section.
ST ALBANS INMATES ALLEGEDLY STAB OFFICIALS
Correctional Services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo confirmed the incident and said it had disturbed them.
Nxumalo said the three officials were treated in one of the department’s facilities and then transferred to a hospital where they received treatment.
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“We haven’t received any other report that the situation could be difficult, but we are in a position to provide additional support, and we wish them a speedy recovery, and we will be checking their progress,” Nxumalo said.
The spokesperson further said they would not tolerate such incidents; hence they have committed to taking decisive action against the inmates.
“Any form of an attack on an official is an attack on the state,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Department of Correctional Services has confirmed that Chris Hani’s killer, Janusz Walus was released on parole on Wednesday, 7 December.
Walus who was sentenced to life imprisonment was released from the hospital where he was kept since he was stabbed by another inmate at the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Facility in Tshwane on 29 November.
“Offender Walus was only discharged from hospital today (7 December) as he had been receiving treatment after he was involved in a stabbing incident. He will serve two years under community corrections in line with the parole regime upon which he is released,” the department said.
As previously reported, before the Constitutional Court ordered his release on parole, Walus was denied parole four times. His accomplice in the assassination, Clive Derby-Lewis, who organised the hit, was released on medical parole in June 2015 and died of lung cancer in November 2016.
Hani’s widow, Limpho, and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have already approach the Constitutional Court to have the parole decision rescinded.
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