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A task team has been established to hunt for awaiting-trial prisoners who escaped from police holding cells in Seshego outside Polokwane over the weekend.

Limpopo police spokesperson Col Moatshe Ngoepe said the prisoners escaped on Friday evening. A task team has been established to hunt for the prisoners. They were arrested for business robberies and for contravening the Immigration Act.

They were identified as:

Jeffrey Sekunda, 40
Alex Chinengo, 26
Usher Hamadanisa, 27
Edmore Madzudzu, 34
Concelia Musengeni, 35
Jeffrey Duvenegwa, 37
Tenashe Moyo, 24
Elvis Charo, 26
Ida Jana, 20
Cosia Mabena, 19
Ludwick Dube, 19
Luckson Manyangadzi, 31
Mishack Brian, 19

Anyone with information can contact Col Simon Mogale at 071-479-2329 or the crime stop number 086-001-0111 or the nearest police station police.

A routine search at the Westville Medium B prison in Durban on Monday resulted in the confiscation of a number of prohibited items such as sorghum beer and drugs, the department of correctional services said.

The search was part of the department’s annual Operation Vala security campaign, which resulted in numerous unauthorised items being confiscated from offenders at 40 prisons.

The operation started at 3.40am and ended at 8am on Monday.

Among the items found were 425 litres of sorghum beer, 75 mandrax tablets, 388 slopes of dagga, about R1,600 cash and 51 cellphones with lots of SIM cards.

Speaking to the media after the raid, KwaZulu-Natal regional correctional services commissioner Mnikelwa Nxele said inmates found with prohibited items would be charged.

Nxele thanked the police, Ethekwini metro police and customs department whose members also took part in the search.

Correctional services spokesperson Thulani Mdluli
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