Offenders jazz band to wow audience this weekend
Music is an effective means to foster correction, rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders
For the first time this year, an offender jazz band will perform at the 2014 Mangaung African Cultural Festival (MACUFE) launched by the Free State Provincial Government in 1997.
The Jazz Band of the Tswelopele Correctional Centre, in Kimberley, will perform at the MACUFE Main Festival, at the Rose Garden, from 12h00 on Saturday (11 October 2014).
“The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is very proud of this opportunity that has been granted to inmates to put their talents on display at this year’s prestigious MACUFE,” said .
He added that music is an effective means to foster correction, rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders.
“Indeed, it is a great day when offenders, talented in music and willing to showcase their talents as part of the rehabilitation process, are taken to such platforms to express some of their positive attributes,”he added.
DCS also has an exhibition stand at MACUFE, exhibiting offender art and beadwork and also educating the public on various programmes of the Department.
Justice and Correctional Services Minister Adv Michael Masutha, accompanied by Deputy Minister of Correctional Services Mr Thabang Makwetla and other senior officials, will visit the DCS exhibition stand and also attend the main festival on Saturday.
