Heads of Centres and Area Commissioners work session, not another talk show
The eagerness to devise strategies to improve service delivery in correctional centres is evident as robust discussions continue at Durban ...
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National Work Session for Heads of Correctional Centres to intensify centre-centric service delivery
Heads of Correctional Centres and Area Commissioners from Gauteng, LMN and KwaZulu-Natal are hard at work, at the Durban Management ...
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DCS hosts the 30th anniversary celebration of President Nelson Mandela’s release from incarceration
Minister Ronald Lamola welcomed the Mandela's reception committee members, the Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa, Deputy Minister Nocawe ...
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DCS hosts first Integrated Facilities Infrastructure Workshop
Government must speedily move away from a silo mentality towards integration.
Delivering the opening address at the first Integrated Facilities Infrastructure ...
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Magistrates’ visit correctional centres as part of judicial training
National Commissioner Arthur Fraser has hailed the recent visit by magistrates’ to correctional centres as a step in the right ...
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Opening Address by Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola (MP), marking the 30th Anniversary of the Release of Former President, Tata Nelson Mandela, Held at Drakenstein Correctional Centre (Victor Vester Prison), On Tuesday 11 February 2020
Opening Address by Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola (MP), marking the 30th Anniversary of the Release of ...
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Together beating the drum for Service delivery
DCS now has a call centre (Tshegetso call centre) situated at the national Head Office…the centre started operating on the ...
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Gallant freedom fighter, Kgoshikgolo Mampuru II remembered
The mountainous village of Mamone, Ga-Sekwati on the outskirts of Polokwane in Limpopo, was a hive of activity on Saturday, ...
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Minister Lamola expresses deep sadness on the tragic passing of two correctional officials in Pietermaritzburg
Minister Ronald Lamola has conveyed condolences to the families and loved ones of two correctional officials, working at Pietermaritzburg Management ...
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Offender class of 2019 exceed the national average matric pass rate
Minister Ronald Lamola extoled the Department of Correctional Services’ cohort of full-time inmates who sat for the 2019 grade 12 ...
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Prison-to-prison Race for a better DCS
What was then dubbed as a Prison-to-prison Race in the yester years continues to ignite a sense of pride and ...
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Remission of sentences to ease overcrowding in DCS facilities, says Minister Lamola
On the Day of Reconciliation, 16 December 2019 Minister Ronald Lamola affirmed the pronouncement by President Cyril Ramaphosa on special ...
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