G4S hides prisoner’s letter to Ramaphosa

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TWO prisoners from Mangaung maximum security prison in Bloemfontein wrote a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, minister Ronald Lamola and Judge Edwin Cameron in May last year exposing Thabo Bester’s well-orchestrated escape but G4S didn’t forward it. The letter of complaint and request was sent G4S, a company managing the prison on behalf of the government, as per protocol, but it deleted and never forwarded to the intended recipients. Instead a G4S assistant administrator, Abigail Willen, sent an email dated May 24, 2022 to her colleagues advising them that “no complaint to be captured.” The email seen by Sunday Independent confirmed that the inmates had sent a letter to the company as well as “the president, Lamola, Cameron etc” and Willen advised her colleagues that “the inmate must use his…

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