‘BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, - dcs.gov.za

1 Summer | 2017/18. ISSN 2312-4393. or C. r e c t ions@WOR K. Ke epin g D C S s t a f f i n fo r m e d & i n s p i HALFWAY. re d HOUSES. policy review and new funding model believe IN. yourself , no matter what the circumstances'. Corrections@WORK 1. PLUS! STATE VEHICLES Manage complaints and requests Summer | 2017/18. Contents ISSN 2312-4393. or C. r e c t ions@WOR K. Ke epin g D C S s t a f f i n fo r m e d & i n s p i HALFWAY. re d HOUSES. policy review and new funding model Summer 2017/18. believe IN Management yourself , 6 Supply Chain Management sharpen their pencils no matter 11 Steve Biko wreath-laying ceremony what the 11 Minister solidifies partnership circumstances'.

2 PLUS! STATE VEHICLES Manage complaints and requests Corrections@WORK 1. 12 Deputy Minister gives Soweto double-dose of DCS. 15 generosity 23 Decorated, long-serving officials lead Gauteng and LMN. Growing our People 30 Eastern Cape veterans talk about DCS VALUES. Know your DCS. 7 HALFWAY HOUSES policy review and new funding model 20 13 Health services report drugs' side-effects 18 DCS celebrates Heritage Month 26 Remand Detention branch utilises all structures to manage overcrowding 18 32 New Service Delivery Charter for DCS. Special Reports 9 Responsiveness to complaints and requests keeps peace in centres 10 Care for state vehicles like you do with your own 32 Facilities focus on energy and water saving 33 Security enlightens officials on information management 33 Gang Management Strategy review is underway Profiles 4 believe in yourself , no matter what the circumstances'.

3 15 Selina Chetty Deaf and proud! 20 No dis- in this able woman's vocabulary 24 MODISE reflects on his tenure 28 Meet Jozi's powerhouse on Community Corrections 34 Mighty cycling machine claims throne amongst SA's best 2 EDITORIAL. or When boundaries C. are broken r e c t ions@WOR K. Ke epin g D C S s t a f f i n fo r m e d & i n s p i re d .. Corrections@WORK is the national staff magazine of the Department of Correctional The recent suicide of fective measures to train staff and educate inmates about boundary Services (DCS), Republic of South Africa .. an official following violations.

4 PATRON: Acting National Commissioner, publicity around her A BBC News article of 2014 refers James Smalberger to four separate incidents of .. alleged inappropriate female officers in England being EDITORIAL TEAM. Editor in Chief: Deputy Commissioner relationship with a male incarcerated for having inappropri- ate relationships with male of- Communications, Logan Maistry offender once again fenders. In the article a psycholo- EDITOR: Estelle Coetzee WRITERS: Neliswa Mzimba, Samantha raised concern among gist suggested it was the artificial nature of the correctional environ- Ramsewaki, Solly Mashabela (also sub- editor), Tiyani Sambo the leadership of the ment that can lead people, who C.

5 LAYOUT EDITOR: Nathan van den Bergh department. normally would not be attracted to CONTRIBUTORS: Mocheta Monama, one another, to overstep bounda- Sivuyisiwe Matanga, Nokuthula Makupula, ontrolling the boundaries ries. These are not normal rela- Johan Gerber, Conrad Jacobs and Kgopolelo between officials and tionships. There is an element of Jabanyane.. inmates is hard to manage forbidden fruit' and some people but it is something that are attracted to that, the psychol- Published by the Department of needs to be addressed by ogist was quoted saying. Correctional Services, Private Bag X136, Pretoria 0001.

6 The leadership and centre manag- A commission of enquiry study- .. ers more regularly and consist- ing the phenomenon among female Repro and printing facilitated by the ently. offenders in England and Wales Government Printers, Pretoria. The DCS Code of Conduct is ex- lamented the lack of reliable data .. plicit about this aspect as it states on the topic and said it had to The opinions expressed in Corrections@ that an official, Acknowledges and hear anecdotal information from WORK are those of the authors and do not adheres to the limitations placed various sources. However, Brit- necessarily represent those of the editor on social and intimate relation- ain's Prison Ombudsman testi- or the Department of Correctional Services.

7 Ships with offenders However, fied that it had investigated five The editor reserves the right to alter any anyone who has worked in a cor- female prisoner deaths in the last contribution or not to publish it.. rectional environment anywhere five years [prior to 2014] in which in the world and anyone who has sexual issues were found to have Letters can be e-mailed to: studied the causes and occurrenc- contributed . The editor reserves the right to shorten or es of broken boundaries between A DCS correctional official knows reject letters. inmates and their caretakers will that engaging in an intimate rela.

8 Attest to the complexities in- tionship with an inmate risks them Copyright is reserved on all material in this volved. losing their job, but also risks their publication. Permission has to be sought in The intricacies are illustrated by own safety and that of colleagues writing. an interplay between many factors, because such a relationship almost such as power relations, gender always leads to doing favours for imbalances, coercion by any of the the inmate, which include illegiti- two sides, the allure of a bad boy' mate activities such as aiding an image, perceptions about love, the escape and smuggling contraband.

9 Promise of love, organisational Perhaps the time has come for discipline and order, overcrowding an in-depth study in DCS about and institutional culture. this matter, which could inform a An American study about how strategy to deal with it compre- inmates perceived boundary viola- hensively. tions with staff recommended that correctional institutions adopt ef- By Est elle Coet zee Corrections@WORK 3. PROFILE. believe in yourself , no matter what the circumstances' BY MOCHETA MONAMA. O. When you enter fficials are busy explain- her grandfather who used to do ing or demonstrating woodwork at home.

10 I am passion- through the big gates various things to of- ate about woodwork because it is of the Kgo i Mampuru fenders, imparting skills part of me and part of my family, . with which offenders she says. II Management Area would be able to start their own Ms Rademeyer joined the depart- Production Workshops, businesses or make a living. The Production Workshops are accred- ment in 1996 as a registration clerk at Baviaanspoort. From there she you are met with the ited by various qualifying authori- moved to Kgosi Mampuru Central ties. where she held several positions high pitched sounds of Born in Claremont, Pretoria, qual- ranging from access control and re- steel being grinded and ified cabinetmaker, Ms Wilhelmina ception before joining the Produc- Rademeyer recalls that one of her tion Workshops.