CAPE TOWN - Some prisons have more foreign prisoners than locals as cells burst at the seams.
About 14-thousand foreign prisoners occupy SA prisons, with 690 of those serving life sentences, costing the taxpayer 5-hundred rand per prisoner per day.
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That's over seven-million rand per day. To discuss what can be done to address this issue.
Kabelo Kgobisa- Ngcaba, the DA Deputy Spokesperson for Correctional Services, Shani Krebs the author of autobiography Dragons & Butterflies, and Golden Miles Bhudu from SA Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights spoke to eNCA.