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The president of the Police, Prisons and Civil Rights Union (POPCRU), Zizamele Cebekhulu Makhaza, says the government should take back the running of prisons from private companies. Last week representatives of the union visited the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein, Free State, from which convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester escaped in May 2022.

At a press conference in Pretoria on Wednesday Makhaza said Bester’s escape had been well planned and had taken place while some of the POPCRU members were off-duty. Makhaza said the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) had failed, as had the Parliamentary Committee on Justice and Correctional Services which should have done its oversight work better.

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