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21-year court battle over TB in prisons ends in R1-million payout

Most of the payout is interest calculated from when state’s liability for TB contraction in prisons was established in 2012

A former awaiting-trial prisoner has been awarded more than R1-million after contracting tuberculosis in Pollsmoor Prison from June 2000 to August 2003. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks.

A former awaiting-trial prisoner has been awarded more than R1-million after contracting tuberculosis while detained at Pollsmoor Prison.
The state agreed to pay R350,000 in damages, but more than R700,000 was added in interest because of delays in finalising the case.
The High Court ruled that the Department of Correctional Services knew it was liable after the Constitutional Court’s 2012 judgment in a similar TB case, yet it failed to resolve the claim sooner.

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