President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved the release of 14,647 offenders on pardons and remissions to mark Reconciliation Day. On Monday, Ramaphosa granted a special remission of sentence to specific categories of sentenced offenders, probationers and parolees. “Remissions of sentences are always carefully considered, taking into account the interests of the public and the administration of..
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More than 14,000 convicts will be free as birds after Ramaphosa approved amnesty and pardon
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Sixteen dangerous criminals escaped from Johannesburg’s jail
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The 16 escaped from the medium B department of jail by breaking down the bars before the window and breaking through a wall.
The facility, known as the Sun City jail, housed the 16 trial convicts. Seven of the escaped prison were awaiting trial for murder, three for rape, five for robbery and one for burglary.
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