Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele today (11 July 2012) visited the Boksburg Correctional Centre, as part of a series of visits that the Minister is undertaking to assess operations in the country’s correctional facilities.
The Minister was accompanied by the National Commissioner of Correctional Services Tom Moyane, Chief Operations Officer Nontsikelelo Jolingana and the Regional Commissioner of Gauteng Zachariah Modise.
The Minister received a detailed presentation on the Boksburg Centre from the Area Management. The Minister’s visit included interaction with correctional officers and inmates at the wood and steel production workshops and the bakery. “We are highly impressed with the quality of production at the workshops as well as the bakery.
We emphasised to management to focus more on the entrepreneurial skills of offenders to enable them to be self-employed and self-sustainable upon release when they are reintegrated back into the society,” the Minister said.
This morning (11 July 2012), prior to the Boksburg visit, the Minister addressed all staff from the national office of Correctional Services in Tshwane.
For pictures of the Boksburg visit, please contact Ofentse Morwane on 076 419 4884.
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Minister Ndebele visits Boksburg Correctional Centre
