Groenewald on quest to “switch” international criminals to chop prices – SABC Information

Correctional Services Minister, Pieter Groenewald says he is in talks with other government departments, including Home Affairs, to come up with a system of sending convicted foreign nationals back to their home countries to serve their sentences there.

Groenewald has lamented the high cost of having foreigners serve their sentences in South African prisons, saying that sending them back would cut costs.

“We are already in talks with the Department of Justice, and we are also in conversation, specifically with our neighbouring countries, to have a memorandum of understanding, that we can then send people who have been sentenced back to their country of origin. The foreigners in our facilities are costing the taxpayer more than R11-million per day. I am of the opinion that we must continue- and I do believe in the end it will have a positive effect.”

Groenewald calls on Home Affairs to assist with parolees’ deportation: