Correctional Services Deputy Minister, Ms Hlengiwe Mkhize, launches Corrections Week and visits care centre for children affected by HIV and AIDS, at Modimolle Correctional Centre, tomorrow, Monday 21 September 2009, 09h30 to 12h30.
Correctional Services Deputy Minister, Ms Hlengiwe Mkhize, will tomorrow, Monday 21 September 2009, visit Modimolle Correctional Centre in Polokwane where she will launch Corrections Week and present food parcels to children affected by HIV and AIDS as well as other health challenges.
As part of her visit, the Deputy Minister will interact with young offenders involved in the vegetable garden project that produces vegetables meant for needy children. The vegetable garden project is one of the programmes put in place by correctional services to ensure that offenders plough back to communities they have offended through crime.
“Offender labour is an important step in our correctional system ensuring that offenders learn to take responsibility so that they can return to society as better people who know that crime does not pay,” said Deputy Minister Mkhize.
The theme for the 2009 Corrections Week is “together doing more to break the cycle of crime.”
All members of the media are invited to attend.
Arrival time for media is 09h00, Monday 21 September 2009 (Modimolle Correctional Centre).
Enquiries
David Hlabane Mkhize
Cell: 082 052 3499
Tel: 012 305 8220
E-mail: david.hlabane@dcs.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Correctional Services
20 September 2009
