This ikon of a stripper dancing amongst an inmate trended amid South Africans on social media
(Durban Crime due north All)
Inmates at a South African prison theater known equally Sunday City were treated to "strippers" equally component division of an official event.
Pictures circulating on social media present 2 scantily-clad women inwards thigh-high boots pressing themselves upward against orangish suited men at Johannesburg's Medium B prison.
On Monday, the Department of Correctional Services confirmed the veracity of the photos.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 amount investigation was nether way, James Smalberger told journalists.
"We tin never tolerate what nosotros stimulate got seen on the social media since Saturday," Mr Smalberger, the acting national correctional services commissioner, said.
Thirteen officers are existence suspended together with volition confront the "full powerfulness of our code of conduct", he added.
The 21 June upshot had been arranged equally component division of Youth Month celebrations - component division of a programme which is meant to aid amongst the rehabilitation of prisoners.
But the women - together with their selection of article of apparel - took government yesteryear surprise.
Gauteng correctional services spokesman Ofentse Morwane told
local intelligence site TimesLive: "When the dancers arrived‚ nosotros saw that they were wearing lingerie. They had roughly form of strip present for the offenders."
Pictures of the women entertaining the inmates began circulating on social media over the weekend, leading many to speculate that life was meliorate behind bars than on the outside.
This ikon of a stripper dancing amongst an inmate trended amid South Africans on social media
(Durban Crime due north All)
However, others were angry that the upshot had been allowed to larn ahead.
Mr Smalberger assured the press conference that no taxpayers' coin had been spent on the women, who were brought into the prison theater yesteryear an external provider.
This was despite the government having rejected their master amusement proposal, he said.
"It is non acceptable for woman somebody persons to seem similar that inwards front end of offenders," he said.
"The management of the upshot should stimulate got never allowed, together with straight off halted, this type of explicit entertainment, equally pronounced yesteryear our policies.
"Therefore, at that topographic point was a clear breach of the safety excogitation that was provided for the upshot equally good equally other relevant policies together with procedures."
