Escape of Thabo Bester reignites conversation around private prisons
Source: eNCA news
Date: 28 March 2023
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IN-DEPTH | After Thabo Bester escape, private-prison company G4S must face the music, experts say
Source: News24
Date: 28 March 2023
Link: https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/analysis/in-depth
Calls for G4S to account for Thabo Bester’s escape
Source: Newzroom Afrika
Date: 27 March 2023
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1xrE865wU
Journalist says SA prison guards open to corruption due to unfavourable working conditions
Source: SABCNews
Date: 28 March 2023
Link:
Investigative Journalist says Thabo Escape is proof that high-level corruption at Manguang Correctional Facility
Source: Update@noon
Date: 27 March 2023
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/update-noon-1/investigative-journalist-says-thabo-bester-escape
ANC leadership’s ‘outrage’ over Thabo Bester escape seems a tad manufactured
Source: Daily Maverick
Date: 28 March 2023
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Thabo Bester | Questions raised about running of Mangaung prison
Source: eNCA
Date: 28 March 2023
Link:
Thabo Bester Prison escape
Source: ivoox
Date: 27 March 2023
Link: https://www.ivoox.com/en/thabo-bester-prison-escape-audios-mp3_rf_105227990_1.html
Thabo Bester Prison escape/THE CLEMENT MANYATHELA SHOW
Source: Life Podcasts and Catchup
Date: 27 March 2023
Link:
Politicians, prison officials and police involved in Bester’s escape: Mckenzie
Source: SABC News (Morning Live)
Date: 28 March 2023
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Mangaung Prison: ‘A Lawless place of torture, forced injections, and corruption’
Source: 702.
Date: 30 March 2023
Link:
G4S not cooperative on Thabo Bester probe – DCS
Source: Newzroom Afrika
Date: 30 March 2023
Link:
DISCUSSION | Security in SA prisons under spotlight following Thabo Bester’s escape
Source: SABC News
Date: 27 March 2023
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Corruption in South Africa prisons and escape of convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester.
Source: Salaamedia
Date: 29 March 2023
Link:
Between the pages of The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison
Source: CapeTalk
Date: 30 March 2023
Link:
Thabo Bester escape: Could it have been avoided?
Source: 702.
Date: 01 April 2023
Link:
Author goes behind the bars of notorious prison
Source: IOL
Date: 01 April 2023
Thabo Bester escape: not the first time government has had to intervene in running of Manguang Prison
Source: TimesLivePremium (Sunday Times)
Date: 02 April 2023
Thabo Bester Story and Security Prison
Source: Weekend Breakfast/Omny.fm
Date: 01 April 2023
Link:
INSIDE EWN ROUNDTABLE: THE STATE OF SOUTH AFRICAN PRISONS
Source: EWN
Date: 03 April 2023
Link: https://ewn.co.za/2023/04/03/inside-ewn-roundtable-the-state-of-south-african-prisons
Thabo Bester story and prison security.
Source: ivoox
Date: 01 April 2023
Link: https://www.ivoox.com/en/thabo-bester-story-and-prison-security-audios-mp3_rf_105538971_1.html
Jailbreak Points to Rot at Prison
Source: Mail&Guardian
Date: 02 April 2023
Link: (physical paper)
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Newspaper Headlines with Roi Simpson | 31 March 2023
Source: Expresso Show
Date: 31 March 2023
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdvnd1N1Srk
Investigative journalist Ruth Hopkins exposes the reality of prison privatisation in The Misery Merchants
Source: The Reading List
Date:
Link:
Radio Islam Interview
Source: Radio Islam
Date:
Extract from Ruth Hopkins’ book, The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison
Source: The Daily Vox
Date: 03 April 2023
Thabo Bester escape a fraction of the rot at G4S-run private jail
Source: mail&Guardian
Date: 01 April 2023
Link:
Alleged Thabo Bester accomplices in court
Source: NewsAfrika
Date: 11 April 2023
Link:
Thabo Bester’s escape from a privately-run South African prison raises questions about corruption
Source: The Conversation
Date: 11 April 2023
Renewed questions about G4S operations: Ruth Hopkins
Source: SABC News
Date: 11 April 2023
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The Lead: G4S directors roasted in Parli
Source: 702 CapeTalk
Date: 13 April 2023
Link:
Thabo Bester’s prison break: Another corrupt institution at play
Source: BizNews
Date: 12 April 2023
Link: https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2023/04/12/thabo-bester-corrupt-institution
G4S is lying. Mangaung Correctional Centre is a chaotic, lawless hellhole’
Source: 702. CapeTalk
Date: 13 April 2023
Link:
Ruth Hopkins | Mangaung prison: What does accountability look like?
Source: News24
Date: 14 April 2023
Outrage as G4S seems to have no clue over Thabo Bester escape
Source: eNCA
Date: 14 April 2023
Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V2ihBJgZ_I
EXCERPT | Ruth Hopkins’ ‘The Misery Merchants’: Reflections on G4S
Source: News24
Date: 15 April 2023
Media and Society | 16 April 2023
Source: SABC News
Date: 16 April 2028
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OUTA Insights: Massive corruption at Mangaung prison exposed, and then covered up again. Why?
Source: OUTA
Date: 14 April 2023