‘In prison you can’t just wake up and join other convicts for breakfast and a bath’
“PRISON is not for the faint-hearted.
“There are bosses in prison and only those who can fight will survive,” warns convicted murderer Zikade Mxuthu.
He was sentenced to 47-and-a-half years in prison in 1997 for murdering a farmer near Koppies in the Free State, and released on parole in 2015.
Since his release, Mxuthu has been dedicating his time and energy to speaking to young people in an effort to dissuade them from committing crime and landing in prison, a “rough place” where not everyone survived, he said.
“I wouldn’t
