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Justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola has warned those implicated in aiding Thabo Bester escape from prison will be held accountable.
Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) president Zizamele Cebekhulu-Makhaza has called on the Department of Correctional Services to immediately terminate its contract with G4S for its failure to meet its service delivery obligations, adding that it is the government’s constitutional responsibility to oversee the care of prisoners. This comes after serial rapist and murderer Thabo Bester escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein and was later arrested in Tanzania with his partner Nandipha Magumudana.