Officials ask Dunoon residents to accept ex-convicts back into society, as nearly 900 released from Pollsmoor
In December, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the sentences of thousands of prisoners were being shortened. Since the announcement, Pollsmoor Prison has released 887 offenders, according to Ntobeko Mketshane, area commissioner of the prison.
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