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Prison guards suspended as jails become smuggling hubs

Prison officers.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Prison officers.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Justice and Correctional Services minister, Nelson Ramaotwana, has admitted that concerns raised by convicted criminal Carter Morupisi about the state of prisons were genuine.

In a letter addressed to Ramaotwana before the apex court condemned him to the penitentiary, Morupisi said the situation at the Village Prison was overcrowded and inhabitable.

He added the place had turned into a commercial drug business run by a cartel of security force officials.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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