Human Interest
Offenders to participate in Macufe─── 08:09 Thu, 29 Sep 2016
Bloemfontein - Choristers and jazz musicians serving time in various Free State and Northern Cape prisons, will take part in this year's Macufe Arts Festival for the third time.
Working together with the Department of Arts and Culture, this project forms part of the Correctional Services programme for offenders’ rehabilitation and social cohesion.
The Kimberley Offender Jazz Band, the Bizzah Makhate Offender Choir from Kroonstad, the Groenpunt Offender Jazz Band from Vereeniging and the Grootvlei Offender Choir from Bloemfontein will take part.
Correctional Services Regional Head of Development and Care for the Free State and Northern Cape Region, Gustav Wilson, says this is a great opportunity for the offenders to participate in the community.
“Most of these artists that we have behind bars, in music and arts, have a skill and the community must be uplifted by means of that skill. And we hope that they are supported so that when they are free, they will already have an opportunity of employment or that they can develop them further with the skills that they have obtained in our correctional facilities,” said Wilson.
Seithati Semenokane/OFM News