A ZIMBABWEAN identified as Bornface Banks held in a South African jail on allegations of kidnapping has touched a hornet’s nest after bragging on video about how soft that country''s prison life is.
According to online publication News 24, Banks angered authorities at Goodwood Correctional Centre after he was captured on video saying he was enjoying his time in prison.
The offending video has gone viral on social media.
"The Department of Correctional Services says it is appalled and incensed by a video making rounds on social media showing a Zimbabwean national bragging about how happy he is in a South African prison and listing all the free things he gets there," read part of the story by News 24 journalist Botho Molosankwe.
"According to the man, those who put him in prison and thought he would suffer were very wrong because not only is he not buying his own toiletries and having three meals a day but he will get free education as well," read the story likely to attract more trouble for the Zimbabwean now expected to explain how he took his cellphone into the cells.
In the video, Banks — clad in yellow prison gear — is surrounded by other inmates. He waves and says: “Hello haters, you put us in prison and think that we are suffering? No, my brother, we are doing extremely fine.
“Look at how happy we are. This morning we had breakfast, and in the afternoon we had lunch. We are about to have dinner.”
He added: “We are doing extremely fine, we are not suffering at all.”
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Banks goes on to list all the other benefits he gets in prison such as free toiletries, not paying rent, not buying electricity while he and other inmates laugh.
“We are happy. If you think we are suffering, you are wrong,” he says as they all laugh again. News24 quotes the spokesperson for the Department of Correctional Services Singabakho Nxumalo saying the man is called Bornface Banks. “He is a Zimbabwean national remanded at Goodwood Correctional Centre for kidnapping allegations. A search exercise was conducted and the used cellphone was confiscated. “DCS is deeply incensed by this behaviour and there shall be strong action and consequences. “Mobile phones are defined as contraband in correctional centres hence illegal access and usage is a punishable offence,” Nxumalo said, adding that there was no soft life in prison.
