JOHANNESBURG - The Department of Correctional Services has a new prison meal plan that reduces meat portions and replaces them with cheaper alternatives.
This has seen inmates at various correctional facilities express their concerns with many saying they have been left to starve.
South African Prisoners’ Organisation For Human Rights says it has received the new meal plan however criticised it saying it would lead to prisoners being malnourished.
South African Prisoners’ Organisation For Human Rights says it has received as the department introduces a new meal plan however criticised it saying it would lead to prisoners being malnourished.
Prisoner rights activist from the South African Prisoners' Organisation for Human Rights Golden Miles Bhudu has lashed out at this new meal plan.
"There is no food. I mean, what they say they're going to cut down off. What are they talking about? Some of them don't even get breakfast. And even if they get the breakfast, the breakfast is not according to what the ratio is, what the book says. And sometimes they don't even get afternoon meals," he said.
Meanwhile, Correctional Service spokesperson Singabako Nxumalo insists the changes have nothing to do with money but rather introducing variety.
He rubbished claims that prisoners go to bed hungry, arguing that some offenders would even refuse to sleep if they haven't had anything to eat.
eNCA reporter Manqoba Mchunu filed this report.