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IN a shocking statement, Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) legislator for Matsieng constituency, Moshe Makotoko, says he wishes all prisoners could just die as punishment for their transgressions and to save the State from looking after them.<\/p>\n
Mr Makotoko said in the National Assembly prisoners should be left to die as their “prize” for committing crimes. He sees the government’s spending on the healthcare of incarcerated individuals as an unnecessary burden on the public purse.<\/p>\n
He says it “defies…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> IN a shocking statement, Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) legislator for Matsieng constituency, Moshe Makotoko, says he wishes all prisoners could just die as punishment for their transgressions and to save the State from looking after them. Mr Makotoko said in the National Assembly prisoners should be left to die as their “prize” for committing crimes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6974,12013,4717,1407,257,6444,42302,254,13352],"class_list":["post-199293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-death","tag-lawmaker","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-prisoners","tag-rfp","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wishes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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