PEN1502 Assignment 4 (DETAILED ANSWERS) Semester 2 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED

PEN1502 Assignment 4 (DETAILED ANSWERS) Semester 2 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references . Thabo Bester escape case from Mangaung Correctional Centre. On May 3, 2022, Bester escapes from Mangaung Correctional Centre with the help of G4S and Integriton employees. G4S security supervisor Senohe Matsoara and Integriton’s CCTV technician Tebogo James Lipholo are among those who allegedly assist Bester escape. Also assisting Bester, is Magudumana, along with her father, Zolile Sekeleni. Also in May last year, Magudumana claims the body of the man found in Bester’s cell. Parliament heard how Magudumana had the body transported to a mortuary in Soweto, before she was set to cremate it. It has now emerged that the SAPS then PEN1502 Page 2 of 3 Due Date: 3 September 2024 confiscated the body after they found that Magudumana had claimed another body in April, claiming it was a relative, only for the body to be found floating in a river. Also in May, Magudumana approached the North Gauteng High Court in a bid to seek relief against the police, for her to be allowed to cremate the body. She had claimed to be Bester’s customary wife, but it was found that she was still in a civil union with Dr Mkhuseli Magudumana, per home affairs records at the time. Judge Edwin Cameron, the head of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services, who also appeared in Parliament, said the police should have ensured Magudumana was arrested for perjury solely based on the untruths she had presented to court. Parliament also heard from top police officials that an affidavit submitted by Magudumana in the court case had been signed by an officer who had left the police force months earlier. Police officials confirmed to MPs that Magudumana was never questioned, despite many unanswered questions. – June 2022 Bester and Magudumana are photographed at a Woolworths supermarket in Sandton. This only emerged in March 2023 publicly in a GroundUp report. He is photographed sporting long hair and sunglasses. – August 2022 An autopsy conducted on the unknown body found in Cell 35 finds that the deceased, initially thought to be Bester, had no signs of smoke inhalation, but had been murdered. His cause of death was according to the autopsy, blunt force trauma to the head. Judge Cameron told MPs he alerted SAPS and DCS in August, that their preliminary investigation found that Bester did not die in Cell 35. April 7, 2023 Bester and Magudumana, along with their Mozambican accomplice, are finally arrested in Tanzania. Several passports are found in their possession, including two passport of one Dr Pashy, real name Mmereka Ntshani. (Sihle Mlambo & Se-Anne Rall, IOL News, 2023) Answer the following questions pertains to the extract above: Question 1 1.1 Identify those aspects from the case study that would support your recommendation that Mr Thabo Bester be given which type of sentence and justify the sentence that you think would be the best option for Thabo Bester to have escaped in correctional services. (10) 1.2 Explain how you, as a correctional official, would ensure that you always maintain internal and external security in the case of Mr Thabo Bester to prevent future escapes. (10) PEN1502 Page 3 of 3 Due Date: 3 September 2024 Question 2 2.1 Name and explain mechanisms you would apply as a Correctional officer to prevent future escapes of inmates including Mr Thabo Bester from Correctional centres? (15) Question 3 3.1 Looking at the development of Correctional Centers in Africa and the state of Correctional Centers in South Africa, what could be the possible reasons for Thabo Bester to opt to escape at Mangaung Correctional Center?