In the wake of Thabo Bester's escape from the Mangaung Correctional Centre, Eyewitness News can reveal disturbing allegations surfacing from another private prison in Limpopo, the American-run Kutama-Sinthumule Correctional Centre (KSCC).
JOHANNESBURG - Allegations contained in an explosive memorandum by inmates from an American-run private prison in South Africa fuelled unrest, resulting in a major portion of the Limpopo prison being torched by inmates.
Scorch marks show the spread of a fire at the Kutama-Sinthumule Correctional Centre in Makhado, Limpopo. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News Signpost to the Kutama-Sinthumule Correctional Centre in Makhado, Limpopo. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News "From 2002, they have been issuing prisoners with nutritional food. A prisoner, during supper, would get his portion of chicken. Sometimes they will also get minced meat or beef. But these things have changed now. The polony things - it has been three years since they have been doing that."
Some of the inmates from the Kutama-Sinthumule Correctional Centre that was set on fire are being housed in sections of the prison unaffected by the blaze, but the majority had to be transferred. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News
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