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Female correctional officers celebrate 30 years (and more) of hard work in service within the Department of Correctional Services.

A calling to rehabilitate the prisoners

 

Many women had expressed fear when it came to working in prisons during the former political dispensation,where they would have to guard serious, hardened offenders.

There are, however, some women who embraced the calling of being correctional officers and joined the department for the sake of bringing rehabilitation to thousands of prisoners.

A group of female correctional officers in the Department of Correctional Services’ Thohoyandou Management Area recalled their 30 years of hard work in service and celebrated their work during Women’s Month. “Our hard work can be attested to by the period we spent locking and unlocking prison grills as well offering some rehabilitation programmes to offenders,” said the head of female and juvenile centre, Ms Joyce Seani Rambunda.

Already in service for 39 years, Rambuda was ing was unbelievable, since we were the first female group to be trained nationally, and what pushed me to get this far is all because of dedication and perseverance and willingness to learn,” she said. She further indicated that discipline, as well as following policy, was important.

Another correctional officer, Ms Rendani Tshilimandila, who works at the female and juvenile centre of the Thohoyandou Correctional Centre, said that in order for one “to reach this milestone, you must first love and respect your job since this will make you value the job which you do.” Tshilimandila, who has already worked for the department for 34 years and is still going strongly, said that she liked working in the department where she offered rehabilitation to offenders.
“I get happy each time when I meet a rehabilitated woman or juvenile walking as a free woman or free youth in the outside world,” she said. “It pains every mother to see prisons crowded by sisters and our young boys.”

News - Date: 02 September 2015

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