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The Spiritual Care Directorate is determined to boost its impact in Community Corrections through partnerships and empowering chaplains on their role in offender rehabilitation and social reintegration.

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Its mandate clearly dictates a need for engagements with faith-based organisations to ensure provision of integrated and holistic rehabilitation programmes to the offender. In the last financial year (2018/19) alone, the directorate signed Memoranda of Understanding with three denominations to formalise long existing partnerships.

These partnerships assist the department to expand its reach in taking care of offenders inside correctional facilities and beyond.

Director Spiritual Care, Dr Menzi Mkhathini said Spiritual Care within the corrections framework in South Africa is a constitutional mandate.

He said according to two scriptures in the Bible, Matthew 25: 36 and Hebrews 13: 3, their duty is a directive from God. “The church must take care of its members behind bars,“ he said.