Correctional services have stated that Zuma is still in hospital, so it remains to be seen whether Jacob Zuma will attend his corruption trial on the arms deals, which will be heard in the Pietermaritzburg High Court today.
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Even in Prison, Zuma is too Sick for his Trial. He has Apparently been ill since 2014 due to Poisoning Confirmed by Russia!
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“Reformed Criminal with Remorse” Released After Serving Only Half his Sentence, Becomes Farm Murderer 10 Months Later!
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The RainBlood AbomiNation that is South Africa is a paradise for criminals: One of Pieter and Eddie Hills’s murderers was supposedly a “reformed parolee who regretted his actions”, according to Correctional Services, and was released on parole after serving just over half of his sentence of 25 years, for robbery with aggravated circumstances. Only 10 months later he became a farm murderer…
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SA’s prisons could run out of beds as crime rate surges
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The growing crime rate and rise in life sentences meted out to offenders may mean that there won’t be enough beds for criminals in SA’s prisons. The department of correctional services has conceded that it is worried about over-crowding which is on a steady rise, as evidenced by the latest shocking crime statistics. The department..
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Correctional services: Thousands e-devices that cost taxpayers R1.8 billion rotting in storage
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The department of correctional services has allegedly spent nearly R2bn on a programme to fit prisoners who are out on parole with electronic monitoring devices, but these devices remain unused because they can apparently only be fixed in Israel. In one of the department’s most ambitious projects yet, it had hoped to electronically tag 10,000..
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Oscar ‘doing well’ after night in hospital
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Oscar is doing well under the circumstances, his father Henke Pistorius says.
The Paralympic athlete was kept in Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, Pretoria overnight for observation after experiencing chest pains on Thursday morning.
“He has been discharged and is back in the facility,” Logan Maistry, spokesperson for the department of correctional services, told AFP.
Henke told YOU Oscar had previously had “bad colds” and it was not clear whether this was a reason for the severe pains in his chest.
Several tests have been performed on Oscar since Thursday and “all the tests were negative”, said Henke.
The 30-year-old is serving a six-year prison sentence for the murder of his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in February 2013.
Oscar has been behind bars for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp, since July 6 last year. He argued that he thought she was an intruder.
He was transferred from the Kgosi Mampuru II prison to the Atteridgeville priso
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‘Men in orange jumpsuits’ pushing police van got public talking
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The police in the Free State got people on the verge after a photo shot by five men pushing a police van through Bloemfontein’s streets was shared on Facebook and Twitter. Three of the men are dressed in orange overalls and although it is unclear in the picture whether the covers have the license plate..
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Phones, drugs, beer found in prison search at the Westville Correctional Services facility
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Durban – Drugs, cellphones and knives were confiscated from prisoners during a search at the Westville Correctional Services facility in Durban. Thirty cellphones, cellphone chargers, mandrax tablets, dagga, ecstasy, knives, other sharp instruments, traditional beer and some cash were found in the cells by wardens and police. Mnikelwa Nxele, KwaZulu-Natal provincial prison commissioner, said the..
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Oscar ‘doing well’ after night in hospital
How is this possible- Shabir Shaik still ‘terminally ill’ after 8 years – but can work and attend sports?
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Eight years after being released on parole for “health reasons”‚ convicted fraudster Shabir Shaik is still regarded as being “terminally ill” – despite his house arrest conditions being relaxed so that he can work and attend sports should he wish to. This has emerged in a response by Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Michael..
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Apartheid prison system was better than what we have now – The white people were doing it better
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A prisoner incarcerated in the Johannesburg Correctional Services facility did not mince his words on Wednesday as he told Parliament officials how prison inmates had been failed by the system. “You are failing us dismally‚” said Ishmael Moshoeshoe‚ an inmate serving a life sentence for murder and other crimes. He has already spent 17 years..
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