Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester showed police officers a fraudulent identity document after being apprehended for speeding in July 2022
Promises by MPs to call further witnesses and to produce a report for debate in the National Assembly have not materialised
Thabo Bester’s escape has highlighted problems at the security firm’s facilities on the continent where strikes, discontent and reports of maltreatment are rife
A Canadian pension fund has been questioned about its investment in the private prisons’ company
Tieho Frans Makhotsa and Natasha Jansen made their first court appearance alongside co-accused for their alleged role in helping Thabo Bester escape from prison
Sources have told the M&G who else can expect a knock on the door from the police over the events of May 2022
Motenyane Masukela faces schedule one charges of assisting an inmate to escape
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
Bookings for luxury accommodation made in the name of ‘TK Nkwana’ reveal Nandipha Magudumana’s movements in the months leading up to Bester’s escape
What would have happened if nobody had blown the whistle on the escape
Evidence suggests that the burnt body found in Bester’s cell was smuggled in via a TV cabinet
Nandipha Magudumana charged in in Mangaung court with murder, fraud and violating a corpse
We are bound to run into trouble when the private sector is given free rein to determine who is deserving of being treated as human and who is not
The company says contractual restrictions limit its interaction with the public, stopping it from giving its side of the story to the legislature
However, abuse and torture at the prison have improved, the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services says
The department will immediately take over the management of Mangaung Prison from multinational private security company G4S
Shaun de Waal reviews three nonfiction books by Ruth Hopkins, Philippa Garson and Tom Eaton
Press ombud Johan Retief has ruled that neither the department of correctional services nor any other source confirmed this referral.
Chilling new claims of inmate abuse at the embattled Mangaung prison in the Free State have emerged.
The wheels of justice are turning slowly in the case of a Free State jail accused of torturing its inmates.
The Mangaung prison crisis has put the failure of private security before Parliament.
Antipsychotic injections are necessary to subdue inmates, says medical staff at the Mangaung Correctional Centre.
Privately-run prisons will cost the state R12-billion over the next 14 years and the results yielded have been disappointing, Parliament has heard.
A two-pronged probe into allegations of torture at Mangaung prison will be completed in the next two weeks, MPs have been told.
G4S regional president Andy Baker responds to the allegations that warders use brutal methods to control prisoners at Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein.
Claims of torture in Mangaung prison will be investigated, says Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele.
After warden assaults, hostage dramas and inmate violence, G4S has lost control of the Mangaung Correctional Centre.
A woman who works for the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein has been released after being taken hostage by four inmates.