/ 30 July 2023

Locked in: Parole system in South Africa works for no one

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Child killer: Norman Afzal Simons, the ‘Station Strangler’, arrives at the Kuils River magistrate’s court, Cape Town, in June 1994. (Leon Muller/AFP)

Reform is on the cards while life sentences pile up, causing major delays in applications

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