Three ex-convicts paid it forward on Wednesday, urging more than a thousand youths not to swap their school uniforms for an orange one by following the wrong path.
Two taximen convicted for the murder of businessman Wandile Bozwana overcame poverty to become breadwinners, but now their families are suffering financial hardship due to their incarceration.
Inspectors from the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (JICS) found that the Ebongweni C-Max prison in Kokstad, outside the Eastern Cape border, had violated the constitution with its harsh solitary confinement practices.
A single bed, blanket and Bible is what welcomed Thabo Bester into his prison cell after almost a year of gallivanting in multimillion rand apartments in some of Joburg's posh suburbs.
Murderer Thabo Bester was making “huge” amounts of money and was deemed “powerful” while serving life at Mangaung Correctional Centre in the Free State.