The Department of Correctional Services "is one of the country’s most essential departments", according to a pop-up information notice on the White Pages phone book’s website. "With over 200 prisons to manage and the crime rate being rather high in SA" – an understatement by any standard – the department "is constantly under pressure". That is why it is "constantly looking for ways to train citizens to come on board". Since the department is presumably not training new crooks (cooks, perhaps), it can safely be assumed they are looking to train new staff, or to retrain old prisons hands like tax boss Tom Moyane, who previously ran the prison service. If he ever returns to correctional services — as a member of staff, obviously — he could take up a learnership in, say, personnel management. In the words of the notice, he could get "trained to make a difference in the country’s justice system". Moyane’s redeployment ought to be an easy cell. Distressed house is safe, sword of An entrep...
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