An inmate in a Tshwane prison has successfully taken the Department of Correctional Services to court for failing to consider a medical parole application of a fellow inmate who has a brain tumour and has become partially paralysed. Piet Kgwatedi Mokwena saw how the health of his fellow inmate in Pretoria's Kgosi Mampuru II prison, Mike Fikile Phahlamohlaka, deteriorated after he was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2015. Nearly nine months after applying for medical parole in June 2016, Phahlamohlaka was still being cared for by fellow inmates. On 18 April the matter was heard in court and it was ordered that Phahlamohlaka be considered for medical parole within 30 days. In the application Mokwena cited Schabir Shaik and Jackie Selebi's successful and quick applications for medical parole.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 09, 2017 08:48 UTC