Government to pay back at least R1.7m to company running ‘Thabo Bester prison’

News24 | 16.06.2026 17:27
The Minister and the National Commissioner of Correctional Services have been ordered to repay at least R1.7 million to the company that runs the private, maximum-security Mangaung Correctional Centre, from which rapist and murderer Thabo Bester escaped in May 2022, GroundUp reports.