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SowetanLive reports that the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has decided to terminate its contract with the private security company G4S for the running of the Mangaung correctional centre.
This follows the daring escape of Thabo Bester from the facility. The department’s spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo said the DCS had given the Bloemfontein correctional contracts, which included its subsidiaries such as G4S, termination notice of 90 days in line with the concession agreement. “The notice of termination follows the announcement on 20 April 2023 by department of correctional services that it had referred its contract with Bloemfontein correctional contracts for a legal opinion. It has been deemed that Bloemfontein correctional contracts is neither competent, nor suitable to continue with the concession contract,” Nxumalo said. He went on to advise: “Bloemfontein correctional contracts is contracted to operate the Mangaung correctional centre, a public private partnership facility. The department will immediately resume with an internal exercise for the takeover process. The contract does lay down a procedure to be followed in this regard.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Noxolo Sibiya at SowetanLive
- Lees ook, Private maatskappy kry trekpas ná debakel by Mangaung-tronk, by Maroela Media
- As well as, Popcru to keep a close eye on termination of G4S contract, at EWN
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