/ 24 February 2001

CAPE WARDERS ON GO-SLOW

WARDERS at Cape Town’s Pollsmoor prison are to embark on a go-slow in protest against cutbacks in staff numbers at weekends. They say the reductions will endanger the safety of both members and inmates in the seriously overcrowded prison. A shop steward for the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) said this meant prisoners would not get visits and would have access to neither the shop facilities nor telephones.