Eighteen new prisons costing up to R8.4-billion will be built across the country, including in two of the most dangerous townships in South Africa.
The government is planning to build facilities in Khayelitsha and Delft, both in Cape Town, with bed space for 2500 medium-security men and women prisoners.
Sixteen more prisons will be built in all the Correctional Services Department’s five regions, including five in the Eastern Cape, another five in Limpopo-Mpumalanga-North West region, three each in KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape, and two in Gauteng.
Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha said it was part of his department’s aim of rationalising the provision of 15000 new bed spaces.
Masutha said funding from national Treasury had been requested and, if granted, the prisons would be built in three phases of six projects each…
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