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A SENIOR prison officer has been fired after she was found guilty of having an affair with a prisoner at a Pretoria correctional centre.

The 35-year-old warder was a supervisor of a section at Baviaanspoort Correctional Centre at the time she was accused of being involved with a prisoner.

The prisoner was in a different section at the same prison.

The officer, who had served 12 years in the department, confirmed her expulsion from Baviaanspoort Correctional Centre and her anger at the outcome of her appeal.

She refused to be identified "for my and my family's sake, and for the fact that we are taking the matter further".

She declined to comment further and referred Sowetan to the department.

According to sources, the relationship had been going on since 2004, but the inmate only came to Baviaanspoort Correctional Centre last year from the Eastern Cape.

First the warder was accused of having breached security rules by smuggling in a R4,50 cellphone airtime voucher. Subsequent investigations revealed that the voucher was for public phones normally used by inmates.

The source added that, following the allegations, the inmate in question was transferred to Zonderwater Correctional Centre in Cullinan, near Pretoria, in June.

"The official was charged for visiting him in Zonderwater. She has a right to visit an imprisoned relative or friend," the source said.

The warder appeared before a disciplinary hearing in July, was found guilty on August 8 and filed an appeal on August 15.

Last Wednesday she was informed that her appeal was unsuccessful and was dismissed with immediate effect.

The department confirmed the warder's dismissal "after she was found guilty of having an affair with an offender, smuggling airtime to the offender and failing to adhere to and acknowledge limitations placed on social and intimate relationship with an offender".

This article was first published in the Sowetan newspaper on 24 October 2012

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Oct 25, 2012

Msiphos01

Did she only smuggle airtime or maybe she even gave the guy mnyakazo in prison

(as they say all animals are equal but some are more equal than the others)
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Oct 25, 2012

KGS000

Ke airtime e feng ya R4.50
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Oct 25, 2012

Ingxabano

unfair dismissal
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Oct 25, 2012

Missjoy

I dont buy this story there is more to it than just a visit and R4.50 airtime, Sowetan investigate and come up with the real story.
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Hay! basadi bona, how can you fall in luv with a criminal?
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Oct 25, 2012

Tasto_

@Missjoy
I dont buy this story there is more to it than just a visit and R4.50 airtime, Sowetan investigate and come up with the real story.
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Hay! basadi bona, how can you fall in luv with a criminal?

If I get blocked its your fault, we have one as sitting prez..!!
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Oct 25, 2012

Mosquer

Missjoy

Hay! basadi bona, how can you fall in luv with a criminal?
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A kere le rata...
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Oct 25, 2012

Rock_on_Baby

Eeeeeh love is really blind!!!y do they have 2 dismiss her 4 falling in love mara?LKK
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Oct 25, 2012

Galfrend

MissJoy - U cant choose who you fall in love with gal, look nna im in love with an avater lol
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Oct 25, 2012

wearefamily

She was fired for getting intimate with the prisoner in cells.
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Oct 25, 2012

KGS000

I just wonder!!!
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