Inmates produce their own food at Baviaanspoort Correctional Farms

Описание: Bavianspoort Correctional Centre is one of the centres which contributes towards DCS’ Self Sufficiency and Sustainability Strategic Framework through its crop production, dairy and piggery. All farming activities are operated through offender labour, where valuable farming skills are transferred to inmates which they will utilise to gain employment when they are released.

Deputy Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Nkosi Phathekile
Holomisa visited the Agriculture Operations at Bavianspoort Correctional Centre, Gauteng Region, on Friday, 12 May 2023.

DCS has a portfolio of twenty-one (21) farms and one-hundred and fifteen (115). small gardens, nine (9) bakeries, nineteen (19) textile workshops, ten (10) steel. workshops, ten (10) wood workshops and one (1) shoe factory.

Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, will table the Budget Vote before parliament on Thursday, 18 May 2023. He is expected to table detailed plans on how DCS will among others enhance its security operations to ensure safe and humane incarceration of inmates; boost production in its farms; partner with institutions of higher learning to improve operations; and ensure regional cooperation within. SADC on Corrections.