Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says cabinet has directed correctional Services to speedly finalise the process to take over the operations of two private-companies mananging the correctional facilities and ensure to ensure consequence management for everyone involved. This comes the Department of Correctional Services (DCS)  National Commissioner, Makgothi Thobakgale says the Mangaung Correctional Facility's security systems were compromised to assist in convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester's escape. Bester is understood to have successfully escaped from the Mangaung Prison in May last year, with officials claiming that he had died during a fire in his cell. Investigative journalist and author of The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison, Ruth Hopkins has questioned the department of correctional service's decision to take back control of Mangaung Prison, after it had done so in 2013. She spoke to Sakina Kamwendo.

<p>Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says cabinet has directed correctional Services to speedly finalise the process to take over the operations of two private-companies mananging the correctional facilities and ensure to ensure consequence management for everyone involved. This comes the Department of Correctional Services (DCS)  National Commissioner, Makgothi Thobakgale says the Mangaung Correctional Facility's security systems were compromised to assist in convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester's escape. Bester is understood to have successfully escaped from the Mangaung Prison in May last year, with officials claiming that he had died during a fire in his cell. Investigative journalist and author of The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison, Ruth Hopkins has questioned the department of correctional service's decision to take back control of Mangaung Prison, after it had done so in 2013. She spoke to Sakina Kamwendo.</p>

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News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award-winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, on weekdays from noon to 1pm on SAfm 104-107fm. 

<p>News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award-winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, on weekdays from noon to 1pm on SAfm 104-107fm. </p>