Sunday World (South Africa)

Prison life preferable to being out

Plea to Komphela from a fellow countryman

- Mashao Mohale Olievenhou­tbosch Fred Mooketsi Rustenburg

THE remission of sentence extended to a certain category of prison inmates revealed a deeply seated problem that the Department of Correction­al Services faces.

It also questioned the success of the social reintegrat­ion concept that is intended to bring inmates back into society after serving their sentences.

Social reintegrat­ion has to do with willingnes­s from both STEVE Komphela, as one of the best captains Bafana has ever had, this is a plea from a fellow South African to you. Please allow somebody who really deserves to be our senior national team coach to get the job.

Fact is that you have more advantages to get the job and it’s society and inmates.

What prison authoritie­s might have overlooked in their assessment of qualifying inmates was family support and whether or not inmates were fully rehabilita­ted, as well as the readiness of society to receive them.

Apparently some convicts who benefited from remission were not ready to face society and hence 50 remission ben- only you who can force Safa to make the right decision.

I am sure that you also know that you are not ready to lead Bafana Bafana, especially in the state which the team is in. Do the right thing, man.

Many soccer fans believe that Safa is using you to get what eficiaries have been rearrested.

They seem to be enjoying life in prison more than in their community.

I am not against human rights and our correction­al system but they have made our prisons more soothing places and hence difficult for inmates to part from. they want, which was to fire Pitso Mosimane and now using you not to hire the right man for the job just because he is white.

Soccer fans have not forgotten your role that helped Safa to fire Stuart Baxter.

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