Government to pay back at least R1.7-million to company running “Thabo Bester prison”
GroundUp | 16.06.2026 10:00
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.
