[1] The South African Department of Correctional Services signed a 25-year contract with the consortium in 2000.
[2] In October 2013, the department temporarily took over the prison, after G4S "lost effective control of the facility".
[3] In October, a female custodian with 13 years of experience was taken hostage by prisoners.
[4] After staging a self-immolation in his cell on 3 May 2022, Thabo Bester escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Center with the apparent help of the guards.
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