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ruth hopkins

@ruthhopk

Independent investigative journalist with an interest in human rights, race, crime, prison industrial complex.

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I heard the news this morning. These lower level guards were on my list. I have information on various other players higher up in the food chain who are deeply involved yet not arrested. Or even suspended. Hopefully they will face the SA criminal justice system one day.

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In the UK, G4S has been criminally prosecuted because it stood accused of defrauding the government. Still, it lands government contract after government contract. Accountability is just a word.... ifsecglobal.com/guarding/g4s-u…

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ruth hopkins One of the companies which was fronted as a BEE shareholder at kutama sinthumule correctional center is owned by the Starke family who are white Americans,this private prison is only here to take profit to America by violating the laws Mzilikazi wa Afrika Minister of Justice and Correctional Services 🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦

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G4S employs approx 15000 people in South Africa. For years it has violated BEE laws. And has been getting away with it: politicsweb.co.za/politics/alleg…

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G4S has received more than £44m in penalties from UK government since 2010. Yet it lands public contract after contract. Just like 40 other companies that run outsourced government services. theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

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Private prison operator G4S has been in the eye of a storm kicked up by the escape in South Africa of convicted rapist Thabo Bester. buff.ly/3M97VcE

But long before then, journalist ruth hopkins had pointed out several issues in her investigations. buff.ly/37qbshT

Private prison operator G4S has been in the eye of a storm kicked up by the escape in South Africa of convicted rapist Thabo Bester. buff.ly/3M97VcE But long before then, journalist @ruthhopk had pointed out several issues in her investigations. buff.ly/37qbshT
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I was interviewed about my book Misery Merchants by Polity media yesterday. Here is the full interview: polity.org.za/article/the-mi… Jacana Mole FB: Jacana Media

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What exactly has been going on at Mangaung Prison, and for how long? And who knew?

Ruth Hopkins (ruth hopkins) unpacks her book 'The Misery Merchants: Life and Death in a Private South African Prison'

Watch the FULL interview:
ow.ly/ArT150Oq19i

FB: Jacana Media

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👉NEW -- David Lammy: Washington’s man in Labour

by Mark Curtis

Lammy has been attending elite US gatherings while courting MI6 and displaying his establishment credentials on Labour’s foreign policy - likely to be near-identical to the government.

declassifieduk.org/david-lammy-wa…

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