Oscar Pistorius was on Friday granted parole after serving a total of eight years for the murder of June’s daughter, Reeva Steenkamp.
Oscar Pistorius was on Friday granted parole after serving a total of eight years for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day 2013.
The Department of Correctional Services’ spokesperson, Singabakho Nxumalo, has confirmed that the parole board's taken a decision to approve Oscar Pistorius for parole.
Correctional Services spokesperson, Singabakho Nxumalo, has now confirmed that the Parole Board will be considering his profile this coming Friday.
The National Commissioner of Correctional Services Makgothi Thobakgale told the media on Monday that the Department has taken strict measures to control the outbreak which caused the death of a 19-year-old inmate last week.
An outbreak of the disease caused the death of a 19-year-old inmate, with eight other inmates at the prison testing positive for it.
Block was sentenced to 15 years in 2018 after being found guilty of corruption and money laundering.
An outbreak of the highly contagious and potentially life-threatening bacterial infection at the prison caused the death of a 19-year-old inmate, with eight more prisoners testing positive for it.
The heat is on at the Mangaung Correctional Services after inmates furnished Eyewitness News with a memorandum that was submitted to G4S prison management as well as the Department of Correctional Services. Inmates claim unnatural deaths, lack of medical services from doctors, torture at the hands of prison officials as well as the lack of education and skills training.
Claims of unnatural deaths, torture at the hands of prison security, and a lack of medical attention and services were raised by inmates through a submitted memorandum to prison officials in mid-October.
Eyewitness News is in possession of a memorandum that was submitted to G4S prison management as well as the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) by inmates of the notorious Mangaung Correctional Centre in October.
The issue of overcrowding in the country’s prisons was once again a concern raised in Parliament on Thursday when the Department of Correctional Services presented its annual report.
There are currently around 127,000 inmates in the country’s prisons, more than 100,000 of them being sentenced offenders.
Magudumana claims she was assaulted at the Kroonstaad Prison on Wednesday where she is being kept.
On Tuesday, the department announced that it had launched a manhunt following the escape of two sentenced inmates.
Social media has been buzzing with speculation that Sandile Mantsoe had pulled off a Thabo Bester.
With the privately-run Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein recently coming under sharp focus for the elaborate escape of Facebook rapist Thabo Bester, Eyewitness News can reveal disturbing allegations surfacing from another privately-run facility in Limpopo - the American-operated Kutama-Sinthumule Correctional Centre.
On Friday morning, Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola announced that the former head of state will be released under a presidential remission of sentence process - a new system that kicked in on Friday.
