DA is calling for a complete redesign of the country’s parole system [SOUND]

# The DA is calling for a complete, evidence-based redesign of South Africa’s parole and community corrections system. Across the country, 35-percent of all parole board posts lie vacant, including 41 community member positions, 17 chairpersons, and 15 vice-chairpersons. In regions like Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and the North West, 19 of 24 posts are unfilled. The DA’s Janho Engelbrecht says meaningful reform is being actively delayed by the Department of Correctional Services’ own internal administrative inefficiencies and obstruction by other state departments and independent state entities: