Correctional Services is due to appeal an earlier order in which a judge gave the green light to three inmates to use their computers in their cells - minus the modems. prisoners rights
All three were at the Zonderwater Prison at the time and studying through Unisa.
Their lawyer, Julian Knight, told the Pretoria News that although the Pretorius brothers were able to use their computers in their cells following the 2018 judgment, the department subsequently took them away from them, pending the appeal application. It is understood that the court yesterday turned down the application to intervene. The organisation was considering its options in that regard.
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