Prisons are assets with huge demand and consume a large portion of public capital

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.