Articles for Elna Schütz

Medical parole system is failing dying prisoners

Terminally ill inmates have died behind bars because the parole process is cumbersome, expensive and inconsistent between prisons

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News | 26 August 2025

Transgender prisoners challenge prison authorities

Correctional Services has developed a standard operating procedure for transgender prisoners, but rights organisations are concerned about implementation

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News | 6 August 2025

Not enough prisoners have access to work and training opportunities

People earn less than R250 a month working in prison workshops or farms

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Brief | 25 July 2025

MPs call for action on prison overcrowding

Portfolio committee suggests alternatives to reduce remand detention

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Parliament | 7 July 2025

New book by Edwin Cameron gives practical steps to reform prisons

“The biggest public policy mistake of the last 125 years was the war on drugs”

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News | 8 June 2025

Closure of US-funded cancer clinic further burdens public hospitals

Hundreds of patients will likely be transferred from the Cervical Cancer Screening and Prevention Clinic at Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg.

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News | 2 June 2025

Hundreds of state mental health patients are being kept in prison

There are not enough beds in South Africa’s 13 psychiatric hospitals

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News | 1 June 2025

Nearly 750,000 driving licences are waiting to be printed - but at least the printing machine is working again

Department of Transport says staff will work extra hours to deal with the backlog

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News | 8 May 2025

Yoruba protest for independence in Pretoria

About 100 people march to Nigerian embassy

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Brief | 2 October 2020