Minister of Sport and Recreation, Makhenkesi Stofile and the Minister of Correctional Services, Ngconde Balfour, will launch the first ever games of prisons and correctional officials from the SADC in Durban on 28 August 2006 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal at 10h00.
This gathering in the form of the Extra Ordinary Conference of Eastern, Southern and Central Africa (CECSCA) Heads of Correctional and Prisons Services signals a new beginning in the history of correctional services in Africa. It is against this backdrop that we also call for the formation of a correctional services organ within the African Union and the United Nations to advance the interests of Correctional and Prisons Services in Africa.
Your institution is invited to cover the official handover of a multi-million rand state of the art security system to the Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour on Monday, 21 August 2006, at the Pretoria Management Area at 10h30. Last year Minister Ngconde Balfour announced a multi-million rand biometric access control system with closed circuit television monitors for installation in 66 centres of excellence and priority maximum security centres around the country.
Minister of Correctional Services, Ngconde Balfour, today announced the beginning of construction of six new generation centres with the formal unveiling and the bricklaying ceremony at the site of the new Kimberly generation centre.
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour says: "All of us are very relieved that Mathe is re-arrested." Addressing a media briefing on the re-arrest of Mathe, a dangerous offender that escaped from C-Max Correctional Centre on Saturday, 18 November 2006, Minister Balfour said the South African society has demonstrated its unity in action against crime.
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