Just weeks after sentenced prisoner and fugitive, Thabo Bester, was captured and rearrested, activists raised the alarm about the fence of Pollsmoor Prison which had been damaged and had gaping holes in it for at least two weeks.
Whistleblower and crime fighter, Zona Morton, raised the alarm nearly two weeks ago after she was informed about the damaged fence.
She immediately contacted the police, RC Klaas, the Western Cape regional commissioner for the Department of Correctional Services, Delekile Klaas, and Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola.
“When a member of the Crime Report and Support Group alerted me to the hole in the fence, I was shocked that this was happening on our doorstep,” she said.
She said the officials told her it would be attended to immediately.
“When I received photographs the following afternoon that it was still not fixed, I repeated the urgency. As a crime fighter and whistleblower, I take the interest of the community at large very seriously.
“With the Thabo Bester saga, it has become clear to us as a civil society that our rights are not taken seriously.”
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