Publication: Cape Times Issued: Date: 2007-01-11 Reporter: Babalo Ndenze

No Privileges for Yengeni When Freed

 

Publication 

Cape Times
Date

2007-01-11

Reporter

 Babalo Ndenze

Web Link

 www.capetimes.co.za

 

Disgraced former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni will not receive special treatment when he is released on correctional supervision on Monday, according to the Department of Correctional Services.

Yengeni will be released after serving just over 20 weeks of a four-year sentence.

Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour's spokesperson, Luphumzo Kebeni, and acting regional commissioner Kenneth Mthombeni said Yengeni would have the same conditions as other prisoners released under correctional supervision.

These were contained in the Correctional Services Act "and would be given to him on his release.

Mthombeni said correctional supervision was like a continuation of sentence.

Yengeni would, for example, have to report to the department when he wanted to leave his home district.

The ANC's provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha said the party had not planned special celebrations for Yengeni's release.

With acknowledgements to Babalo Ndenze and Cape Times.