253 foreigners jailed for robbery
2007-09-19 23:05
Cape Town - There are 253 foreigners - 143 of them Zimbabweans - serving sentences in South African prisons for robbery with aggravating circumstances, such as armed robbery.
Replying to a written question by Vincent Gore of the ANC, Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said of the 129 foreign nationals jailed in 2005 for this type of crime, 74 were Zimbabwean, 36 Mozambican, six Nigerian, and four Tanzanian.
Three were Lesotho nationals, and one each from Angola, Cameroon, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Swaziland.
Of the 68 foreign nationals admitted to prison in 2004 for robbery with aggravating circumstances, 40 were Zimbabwean, 19 Mozambican, four from Lesotho, two from Tanzania, and one each from Finland, Peru, and Uganda.
Altogether 56 were imprisoned in 2003 - 29 Zimbabweans, 22 Mozambicans, two Tanzanians and Swazis, and one Lesotho national.
Replying to another question by Gore, Balfour said 181 foreign nationals were serving prison sentences for drug-related offences committed during 2003, 2004, and 2005.
Of these, 37 were Mozambican, 32 Zimbabwean, 28 from Lesotho, 21 Tanzanians, 17 Nigerians, seven Peruvians, six Brazilians, and five Spanish.
There were also three each from Congo and Ghana, two each from Angola, Cameroon, China, Uganda and Uruguay, and one each from Bolivia, Burundi, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Swaziland, the DRC, and Zambia.
- SAPA