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Justice Minister Ronald Lamola announced that the Department of Correctional Services issued the Mangaung Correctional Centre's management company with a notice that it will terminate its contract. Mangaung Correctional Centre, from where Thabo Bester escaped a year ago, could soon be back under the management of the Department of Correctional Services.
The department issued a notice to terminate the contract of the private company managing the prison, but the matter could be challenged in court. Police have rearrested one of the two convicted rapists who escaped from the Ngqeleni Correctional Centre in the Eastern Cape on Freedom Day last week. Siyabulela Khohliso was caught on Sunday after four days on the run, but his fellow inmate Athini Nothi Mzingelwa remains at large.a group of 22 South Africans was finally granted permission to catch a flight back home.
They received the release order from Egyptian authorities late on Monday night. A day earlier, on Sunday, 53 South African evacuees arrived safely at OR Tambo Airport. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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