PODCAST | National dialogue: How much time does SA have before frustration boils over?
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PODCAST | National dialogue: How much time does SA have before frustration boils over?
timeslive.co.za/politics/2025-08-21-podcast--national-dialogue-how-much-time-does-sa-have-before-frustration-boils-over/
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PODCAST | ‘All my office furniture was made by prisoners’: Groenewald pushes for hard labour, deportations
timeslive.co.za/politics/2025-08-07-podcast-all-my-office-furniture-was-made-by-prisoners-groenewald-pushes-for-hard-labour-deportations/
Key FactsPrison Labor and Punishments Aim to Cut Costs
Aug 7, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: timeslive.co.za
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: timeslive.co.za
- Inmates are encouraged to engage in farming, clothing production, baking, and factory work to reduce taxpayer expenses by hundreds of millions annually.
- Savings from prison labor initiatives currently total around R500 million a year, with plans to increase this to R1 billion within two years.
- Groenewald advocates reintroducing corporal punishment for petty theft as a faster, less expensive alternative to jail time.
- To address overcrowding, the minister proposes deporting 26,000 foreign prisoners, who cost approximately R11 million daily to detain.
All [prison] uniforms are produced by inmates. All the furniture in my offices — Cape Town and Pretoria — has been manufactured by inmates, so it's much cheaper.— Pieter Groenewald, Correctional Services Minister, discussing the cost-saving measures in the prison system.
PODCAST | 'Sometimes rules are an obstacle': Cachalia on Mkhwanazi and taking charge of police
timeslive.co.za/politics/2025-07-16-podcast-sometimes-rules-are-an-obstacle-cachalia-on-mkhwanazi-and-taking-charge-of-police/
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