Scroll up to listen to the full interview. Ruth Hopkins, investigative journalist and author There needs to be a more thorough approach than trusting the Department of Correctional Services to solve this problem because the last time they took over it was one corrupt situation. What's going to be the end result now? I would say it's time for a public inquiry.
It's now the second time that the government is taking back this prison.
That's what has allowed Mangaung prison to be a complete hell hole. Money speaks louder than morals, human rights and human dignity. Deborah Ruth has 1 job listed on their profile.
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It's like a rich feeding ground for very corrupt practices, including this very spectacular escape. View Deborah Ruth Tembo’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. One problem it doesn't have is overcrowding. The company is just making a profit and the government is very much complicit. They use methods of crowd control such as torture, violence and forced injections with anti-psychotic drugs to control the prisoners. The company is underpaying and overworking its staff and not providing enough people to oversee the number of prisoners. There is nobody ensuring that the prisoners are treated in a dignified manner. It's run by a ruthless company and a corrupt government. It operates very violently and chaotically. I investigated Mangaung prison from 2012 up until approximately 2020. In the book, Hopkins presented up-close encounters with prison gang members who run the facility, frank and revealing interviews with prisoners, and a unique insight into the minds of the warders on the torture squad. The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison is a hard-hitting exposé about G4S' management of the prison. The private prison where the incident took place is run by security company G4S.Ĭould all of this have been avoided if government took note of the book written by award-wining journalist Ruth Hopkins in 2020? The department said that despite their findings, officials at the prison were adamant that it was Bester who died. The Department of Correctional Services only confirmed to the public last weekend that the body of the person found in Bester’s cell, was in fact not him. The man dubbed the ‘Facebook rapist’ pulled off a daring escape from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in May last year after faking his own death.
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