Correctional Services Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale is overseeing the opening of a bakery at the New Prison in Pietermaritzburg. It will be operated by prisoners as part of a programme to provide them with skills. Newzroom Afrika's Lele Ndlovu speaks to Thobakgale. Watch: #Newzroom405

@SilethiweNdlovu Youth outside lacks places where they can learn skills and that is given to inmates. It’s nice to be a prisoner in South Africa

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@SilethiweNdlovu While the initiative to open a bakery at the prison in Pietermaritzburg may seem good for prisoner rehabilitation, one must ask: who won the tender to operate this bakery, and under what criteria? Transparency and fairness in public procurement must be critical!

@SilethiweNdlovu SA is run by truely insane people.😅 And you wonder why criminals from all walks of life love this place, plus the bonus of a corrupt SAPS😅 You can commit all types of crime and receive mentor ship on how to make bread😅

@SilethiweNdlovu Hmm..if done correctly, the bakery should serve the prison, then schools & other social spaces. No more tenderpreneurs.

@SilethiweNdlovu Please make sure they work for free. They lost their right to pay when they committed acts outside of the law.

@SilethiweNdlovu The whole Dept of Education opted for those horrendous carry back primary school desks instead of re-investing on such to source adequate desks... 😫🙄🤦

@SilethiweNdlovu 😂😂😂 free foods and job placement lmao 🤣

@SilethiweNdlovu Good, they must feed the whole prison minus many mouth to feed that is just sitting there and doing fokol.

@SilethiweNdlovu This guys need to work the land, we need them ploughing the land Abe doing the right things not bakery

@SilethiweNdlovu I see trouble brewing