Department Of Correctional Services
latest news & developmentsPieter Groenewald: Correctional Services
SCORE: C In 2025, Groenewald stepped down from his leadership role in the Freedom Front Plus to focus on his ministerial duties. In June, parliament’s portfolio committee on…
Correctional services cuts consultant costs, pushes to build internal capacity
The department is implementing a formal strategy to curb irregular expenditure and align procurement with the treasury
Prisons commissioner orders inquiry in response to M&G ‘holidays in hospital’ exposé
A deputy commissioner will investigate claims that wealthy prisoners are buying themselves preferential treatment in jail
Mchunu confirms Thabo Bester was detained and then released while he was on the run
Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester showed police officers a fraudulent identity document after being apprehended for speeding in July 2022
Oscar Pistorius’ lawyer eyes ‘immediate release’ if he gets parole
The former former Paralympian was jailed for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013
When only the court can set you free
Should Brannon Petersen only be reconsidered to be released in August next year, he would have spent 27 years in prison, ten years after his indefinite sentence expired
Marike de Klerk’s murderer granted parole
Twenty-two years after being handed two life sentences, Luyanda Mboniswa will be released on parole
Government asks litigants for submissions on Zuma’s fate
Correctional services wants input as it considers a court order that says the former president must return to jail because his medical parole was unlawful
‘Station Strangler’ parole: Mitchells Plain residents want 21 unsolved murder cases reopened
Police will meet Parow residents on Tuesday, two days ahead of his release under house arrest in that area
Zuma in Russia for health reasons
The former president will return home once his treatment is complete, his foundation said after a concourt decision made plain he must return to prison
‘Station Strangler’ due to be freed after 28 years in jail
Norman Simons was charged with 22 murders but only convicted of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old in Mitchells Plain
Man who helped Alison Botha after violent 1994 rape, says paroled assailants cannot be rehabilitated
Tiaan Eilerd has said the government must be held responsible when it releases an offender who goes on to commit murder or rape
More staff at G4S’ Mangaung prison knew of Bester’s escape – Popcru
Police trade union president calls for an end to the public-private prison system, citing the foreign company is more concerned with profit than rehabilitation
Thabo Bester is back, but who will keep him behind bars?
What would have happened if nobody had blown the whistle on the escape
Suspects linked to Thabo Bester face charges of murder, fraud
Police say that more suspects are likely to be arrested