West Cape South Africa prisons on full alert after plot revealed that three prison-gangs are planning to kill all the wardens Nine wardens injured, 7 prisoners injured in first attempt. Authorities fear attacks will spread to other prisons. The three gangs practically run the West Cape prisons:
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It was a 'brilliantly planned' attack by three of the leading gangs in the West Cape prison system - and their purpose was to kill all the wardens.
This was told to Die Burger daily newspaper in Cape Town by West Cape regional commissioner of corrective services Delekile Klaas.
He described the Thursday-afternoon knife attacks against nine wardens at Drakenstein Prison (the former Victor Verster-prison) in which members of the 26’s-, 27’s- and 28’s-Cape Coloured gangs.
Klaas said there are fears that this will happen again. "The men didn't accomplish their goal (to kill) and seven were injured themselves. Our preliminary investigations show that the prisoners wanted just one thing: to kill the wardens'.
All the West Cape prisons have been placed on high alert. "All three gangs had one combined goal. The wardens wanted to search the prisoners but the latter responded with violence.
In the process nine wardens and seven prisoners were injured. It was a cruel attack on the wardens.
He is investigating whether the Drakenstein attack was in responde to an attack on a prisoner Lubabalo Mzamo who died and a warden who was injured
'during a gang ritual at the Brandvlei prison outside Worcester'.
"These gangs in the prisons have many rituals and rules. The gangs believe that if a leader-figure is killed, blood has to flow: there must be revenge'.
The injured wardens were taken to Paarl Mediclinic and the prisoners treated inside the prison hospital.
He expects the wardens to recover fully and return to their jobs next week.
They are sharpening up their security measures especially for visitors.
"So many visitors try to smuggle drugs and objects into the prisons. A week earlier we arrested a person for hiding a knife in a loaf of bread'.
The West Cape manager of the state-employees' trade union PSA said he 'fears for the lives of the wardens'.
"The situation is very bad and more incidents like this will happen right across the province.'
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