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South Africa's Prison Population: A Demographic Breakdown

MTD Research Specialists
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January 11, 2025
South Africa's prison system houses a diverse population, with various factors influencing its composition. Here's a breakdown of the key demographics:

Nationality:

South African Citizens: The majority of prisoners are South African citizens, accounting for approximately 89.5% of the total prison population [Source: Department of Correctional Services (DCS) Annual Report].
Foreign Nationals: Foreign nationals make up the remaining 10.5% of the prison population. This includes individuals from various countries across Africa, as well as other regions.

Undocumented Immigrants: While precise figures are difficult to obtain, official data from the Department of Correctional Services suggests that undocumented immigrants make up a relatively small proportion of the foreign national prison population, likely around 2,000 individuals out of a total of over 140,000 prisoners [Source: Department of Correctional Services (DCS) presentation on Foreign Nationals in Prisons, 2023].

Gender:

Males: Men constitute the vast majority of the prison population, comprising around 95.7% of all inmates.
Females: Women represent a significantly smaller portion, making up only 4.3% of the prison population.

Age:

Adults: The majority of prisoners are adults, with the age distribution peaking between the ages of 25 and 34.
Minors: A small percentage of the prison population consists of minors, typically under the age of 18.

Race:

Black Africans: Black Africans make up the largest racial group in the prison population, accounting for approximately 70% of all inmates.
White Africans: White Africans represent a smaller proportion, comprising around 20% of the prison population.
Coloured Africans: Coloured Africans make up around 9% of the prison population.
Indian Africans: Indian Africans represent a small minority, comprising around 1% of the prison population.


Source
https://www./south-africas-prison-population-demographic-breakdown-vkwyf/

https://www.protectionweb.co.za/correctional-services/foreign-nationals-account-for-11-of-the-incarcerated-population-says-dcs/

Congratulations, for proving the obvious..

.Of course South Africans will make the majority of prisoners in South Africa duh?? Most prisoners in Nigeria are Nigerian right??

However, the headlines I've posted explicitly say in some prisons foreign inmates outnumber locals, which is abnormal whichever way you look at it..

Show me any African country with the same distinction

seppuku:
I can dig up the info but I want you to do it so you see what I already know.

LOL, trying be cryptic ..hahaha. youre so unintentionally funny... I already said go and dig.. get the narrative you desperately want

seppuku:
The burden is on he who accuses not he who is defending.

For the record before I am slandered on here. I acknowledge there is a migrant crisis in South Africa and government and home affairs in particular need to do the needful to either regularize people within their borders or deport them back to their countries.

Ah classic Seppuku, Now we gonna play he says-she says l" right? The convo is gonna start running in circles... this what you do best.

seppuku:
You made the claim about foreigners outnumbering Locals in prisons. I see only one prison mentioned in the article.

Can you post the numbers for the rest of the prisons so we see them in absolute numbers?

and you desputed that claim, so ddespute it with verifiable claims, it's that simple.

seppuku:
But you clearly stated that it was "Shaka" who fought te British in your previous post. Please go back and redact that statement.

Is Shaka not Synonymous with what you refer to as Zulu people today who are an amalgamation of other clans who were conscripted into this domineering and expansionist group?

You always claim to know better than thr next person and yet you responded by saying what Shaka did, when he wasn't there to do it.

seppuku:
Post the numbers of your prison populations please.

You claim it's "spinning" prove it is.. I'm sick of this

seppuku:
I believe one of your compadres used this spin to justify his hatred of foreigners. Can you post the stats from each of these prisons so we see the numbers?

LOL.. hahaha .. thought as much.. when it doesn't align with your victim narrative it's "spinning" right?

When it's not 'xenophobia" it's gotta be some other reason other than yourselves . Typical

seppuku:
Context is important my dear friend.

Tis fact Shaka fought the btitish but without context it is meaning less. He fought them because they were impeding on his expansionist tendencies and bloody war mongering ways.

He is no hero and you know it.

LOL, Shaka didn't even fight the British the Zulu did long after Shaka was gone

seppuku:
Yes you live in those drug infested areas and your brother Jabulani bought drugs from that Nigerian peddler down the street.

Shame, I feel sorry for you.

Where ever I live I still live better than an average Nigerian

seppuku:
And you are fooling none of us about how you are victims of swarms of black poor class Africans coming to steal all your resources from you when we see hoards of Europeans swarming your country buying up properties, turning you into servant and pricing you out of most of the rich areas of your own country.

Some Warrior people you are?

Always avoiding accountability.. are you telling me, legitimate concerns of South Africans about crime from foreigners aren't legit? Show me one country in Africa which has is prisons full of foreign prisons than locals

seppuku:
We know what your people are doing staring up hatred in the name of your patriotism and we will not let your narrative persist.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krp6kNAJd44

And I'm guessing you're these helpless little innocent law abiding victims.. continue playing the victim card.. you're fooling no one especially me as South African

seppuku:
Shaka was a war monger who the british saw as a threat to their own expansionism in the natal area.

His war was not one of resistance to colonialism.

Stop spinning the story.

Shaka fought the British.

You sold your own to slavery..

Both facts of life

seppuku:
A black South African is synonymous with the word Xenophobia. This label did not create itself by accident either.

The first thing any South AFrican knows about the average black saffer is that they are xenophobic. I challenge you to prove otherwise.

Pot calling the kettle black.

Get out of that bubble you are living in.

Except I'm in South Africa talking about the drug dealing I know first hand.. someone from Kaduna regurgitates a xenophobia he has no idea of, two different things..

JaceBlaze:
Lol what nonsense do you not tolerate? White people never had any intentions of staying there because of how high them temperatures get.They pillaged the resources with little to no resistance from ya'll.

We don't believe you got it in you like that..nah!

King Shaka fought thick and thin fighting the British..the San also fought the Dutch.. who did Nigerians resist? Because last time I checked they sold their own during the trans-atlantic slave era.. they also sold their own as slaves to Libya as recent as 2022

BondRiv:
Who cares? All these unnecessary things. Xenophobia is a disease. Hard to see any beauty with that present.

Also start with seeing the rempant tribalism in your country as a disease too..or that doesn't matter?

seppuku:
Na the way Nigerian boyz dey oppress them for their own country dey vex them nothing more.

They just camouflage it in the guise of "drugs peddling"

A Nigerian in South Africa is a euphemism for a criminal or a drug dealer.. and that stigma didn't create itself ..

But continue choosing a narrative that's more palatable to you like " Naija boyz they ioppress them, they vex nothing" nonsense..

Ruke1990:
There are more Nigerians in UK, Cameroon, Ghana than there are in SA, but only SA cries & whines over their presence. Do you know the population of Nigerians in the US, Canada, UK, Italy, Germany? How come those countries are not crying and aren't going nuts and even crazy about Nigerians like SA do?

Perhaps, black SA suffers from hatred problem and inferiority I am aware you guys equally hate Zimbabweans and the white minorities amongst you. So, hate is more of a culture for you guys. The apartheid system put you in combat/aluta mode and you have never recovered since then. More like a national PTSD. After fighting with the colonial leaders, you got to pick other leaders in continent to fight else there won't be any purpose of living. In this case, the next leader is Nigeria. I do hope a national recovery programme could be carried out in SA to liberate you guys from the PTSD and hate DNA which arose we side effects of the arpatheid system. You are still in combat mode after winning the arpatheid war. You need urgent national medical attention to calm down the aggression and come out of this "struggle mode" - the struggle for freedom

Please quote where I whined about the presence of Nigerians in South Africa in this post you quoted.

Nigerians have the worst reputationof all Africans boss, and many countries do complain about your presence... ie India, Malaysia, . some countries have even banned you purely for your predisposition to crime.. nobody wants Nigerians in their countries and I repeat nobody, you're at best tolerated, so don't make this a South Africa thing..

Why do you keep bragging to me on how many of these European countries have Nigerian populations? It really doesn't impress me.. it's not a flex you think it is.. the UK you're bragging about is also fed up of you because of your crimes so says your former president Buhari..

If black South Africans have a " hate" problem I shudder to think what y'all have over there since y'all don't even like each other tribally... "Igbo man cant be this and that in Lagos yoruba land" blah blah.. . You're the last people to lecture us about hate my brother, Nigeria is one of Africa's most tribalistic countries so which PTSD yall suffering from? Which side effects from which regime? Yall pointing fingers at us but ignore you own stench at home... we didn't wakeup and started disliking Zimbos and Nigerians in SA.. the dislike was earned... tell me why hate on your fellow yoruba or igbo compatriot..start there!!

seppuku:
It hasn't expired. Your Xenophobia is ingrained. Your DUDULA are provoking the government so there is an all out fight between migrants and indigenes so they can garner the support of the gullible public to support their fascist right wing financed propaganda from the likes of ROb hershov and the Patriotic Alliance.

The real arguement should be where is the middle ground between upholding citizens rights versus human rights but olodo's likeyou will use anecdotal evidence of Zims stealing ARV's from your clinics and selling to their people.

oh here we go again with the "xenophobia" card. This surely can't be your silver bullet to every argument

[quote author= post=136014316]I guess you are far from Nigerians that are professionals. Stereotypes and Prejudices can be applied in both ways. For example I don't know much about south africans and their way of life because I have not lived there. I won't take whatever someone tell me about them as a fact until I live with them. Nigeria have huge population therefore they will be huge number of unexposed, half educated ones with access to internet. Smartphones and internet is even cheaper now in nigeria. Thanks to chinese phones. Hope you get it now, don't put everyone in one basket.[/quote]Bro, Nigerians love their white man and this is the hill I'm willing to die on. I've seen enough to come to this conclusion

seppuku:
I find it strange at how we can be jealous of a place that has been the same for years and hasn't changed in terms of its topography.


Did you guys make Southern Africa beautiful or did nature


SMH!

And yet you are..

JaceBlaze:
I like the part where he said most Nigerians have this idea in their heads that Nigeria leads Africa lol.

I mean these people refer to African countries that outclass them in every sphere as "ordinary" this,"ordinary" that.

Very delusional I tell ya!

LOL, and we all know they do..

[quote author= post=136014142]Damn, abeg take it easy. All you are saying is the truth. Not all Nigerians reason like those guys. Most Nigerians don't worship white skin too, most can't even survive in Nigeria because we don't tolerate nonsense. These people replying you without logic may be pulling your legs. They are not making sense.
Countries in Southern part of Africa has very good climate and beautiful landmarks compared to Western part. It is not an argument at all unless the Nigerian is an unexposed fool.[/quote]I know some don't but I'm convinced most do. Why do I say this? Nigerians are fond of taking about white people bro, even in topics that have nothing to do with them, I've read many times that even in the US, African Americans pick that up with Nigerians and end calling you Uncle Toms..

JaceBlaze:
They better kill this narrative/myth about South Africans not being travellers.Who told these people these nonsense? They just don't understand the nature of South Africans,we are not pompous in other people's spaces.When we travel we don't violate the laws of nobody's country and we mostly keep to ourselves and do what we came to do,then is back to SA.

Everything is luxury to Nigerians, hence they brag about every little thing.. you're right, it's a culture thing for example, South African men aren't big on splashing on women like that, even men with money of course some do.. Nigerians will come here spend on SA women then make a noise about spending on our women and claim they're "taking our women" since we don't have money... not reaslising it's a more of a societal thing..

JaceBlaze:
They'd do anything to get to white papa's land.Doesn't matter how dangerous and risky the "travelling" method is.Papa Oyinbo is all they want.

A Nigerian is saying this on Twitter and pretty sums up what we're saying

JaceBlaze:
Noticed that those are just mainly west African countries that share cultural & ethnic similarities with Nigeria? Dude South Africa attracts its neighbouring countries and migrants from far away African region who have nothing in common with us,and you wanna brag about housing Chad and Senegal? Are you serious?😂😂

You still got the gall to bring up Libya when they see you guys as mere slaves? You have no respect for yourself

The Europians that invaded the land and raped the natives to create a new race is seen as civilisation in the eye of an avarage nigerian? ..I give up

Actually I believe that the average South African has a better grasp and understanding of the world and global politics than an average Nigerian.Just look at the way Nigerians reason on this site and the way you guys still see white people as godly saints..now that right there is the meaning of unexposed.


Lol what you guys are doing over there is not travelling,you are running from hunger,wars and stagnation to resettle yourselves in countries that real men laboured with their blood,sweat and tears to make better.Don't pull that "travelling" sh*t anywhere near me because I will call it what it is and your nerves will be touched badly

So because we don't loiter around street corners in foreign countries in the name of "hustling" then you just assumed that we don't travel? We have a very beautiful and well-functioning country to come back to while you remain an international vagabond that don't wanna go back to the country of his ancestors😢


Amen!!

Drowning in Mediterranean is thr travelling they like bragging about.. it's ridiculous

Ruke1990:
Do you know how many Malians, Senegalese, Cameroonians, Chadians, & even Niger nationals that currently live in Nigeria? Virtually more than half of the tricycle riders in nigeria come from those countries. Besides, there are no countries in the world without a sizeable Nigerian population. Ask Kenyans, ask Ghanaians, ask Libyans, ask Americans, ask the Britons, ask the Italians. It is because black south Africans are unexposed, local and have no travel experience, that's why they think Nigerians see something special in south Africa. Nothing special there. Travelling is just our way of life.

Civilised people all over the world are known for their great travelling experience. There are more Jews in South Africa, USA, UK, Germany, India, Russia than there are in the land of Israel. The Irish population today is lower than the Irish population of the 18th century because of rich travel experience. Even south Africa has mixed race due to the travel nature of civilized Europeans. The lack of travel experience amongst south African blacks is majorly responsible for their closed mind, local reasoning and hatred towards the intelligent and well travelled Nigerians

LOL, Now this is laughable.. travelling" has absolutely nothing to do with being "civilised" absolutely nothing! The great British empire spread high and wide but they did so pillaging displacing and enslaving, and overall being barbaric.. People travel all over the world for nefarious things, trafficking drugs, for sex tourism, to smuggle or to steal ,so equating traveling with being civilised is the most absurd thing I've heard all day!

Yes, Nigerians are all over the world as you rightly claim but there's also nothing civilised with this group of people, Nigerians arent even civilised in their home country of Nigeria, you can't compare a Norwegian traveller with a Nigerian one, let's not act as if Nigerians aren't all over the world because their country has failed them, a Nigerian has no problem leaving a bank job in Nigeria to be an au pair or a janitor in Dubai... it's an indictment of your country boss

Contrary to a popular myth, black South africans do travel, I see on my Instagram black south africans in different countries everyday, black South africans teach English in countries like China and Korea, We have nurses in the UK, students in the US etc, we are just not as Japa mad or obsessed with the West or white countries as you are... we're also hellbent remaining and making our country work instead of fleeing to countries built with the sweat of other men.

South Africa is probably the most cosmopolitan country on the continent, we rub shoulders with every culture on the planet, so to claim we're "unexposed" just because we're unwilling to drown in oceans reaching for Europe is ridiculous

Mirasteel:
Everybody knows how unproductive most blk south Africans are, the whites are the only one making the country work.

LOL, we are "unproductive" but yet we're the biggest black middle class in Africa leapfrogging you despite getting your independencein the 60s, the highest number of dollar millionaires are black south africans, Johannesburg their hub... we preside over a higher middle income country while yours is a lower income country.. Black South Africans also preside over a country with a higher GDP per capita than yours meaning the on average a black South African has a higher spending power than an average Nigerian..I can go on and on...

Continue sweating from chest pains, bitterness and jealousy is written all over your comments, you're clearly triggered

Mirasteel:
Go and make your research, when it comes to natural resources, your country is nowhere near Nigeria.

Youre bragging of having natural resources yet you're dependent on one commodity which is oil and yet South Africa is the one with a diversified economy. etc gold, diamonds, platinum, citrus fruit etc. You even import some to your own Nigeria. . lol 😆 🤣 😂

Ruke1990:
why are you weeping on the internet over a simple comparative analysis? Bro take heart. Get well soon

You had no problem weeping yourself after seeing SA being praised of its beauty and telling us about the likes of Morocco didn't you? Why is the response muted now? Cat cut your tongue?

JaceBlaze:
Yet the rest of Africa left their countries to squeeze with us inside this 10% ? Some of you have no idea how pathetic you sound and how contradictory the stupid sh*t you spew are to reality...I swear🤞

I keep saying their jealousy dwarfs logic..