(ix) Work, exercise and education (a) Work Few of the prisons have agricultural projects and other activities to keep the prisoners busy. The Drakestein and Leeuwkop Management Areas are huge prison farms with diverse agropastoral activities. These two Areas are self-sufficient with food and the Leeuwkop Prison even provides vegetables to neighbouring communities as part of a poverty alleviation scheme. Work in the farms is carried out by prisoners and supervised by qualified agricultural staff. In Drakestein and Leeuwkop some prisoners were unsupervised when using tractors to till the soil. On enquiry, the Special Rapporteur was informed those are prisoners who had served most of their sentences were due for release soon. The Special Rapporteur was also informed that no work is meted out to prisoners as a form of punishment, rather farm work and other manual work are geared towards rehabilitation and eventual reintegration. The prisoners are given some money in the form of incentives to encourage them to work but are not remunerated for the work done. The incentive depends on the nature of the work and the effort and time put in by the prisoner. (b) Formal and vocational education Apart from the Drakenstein, St. Alban’s, Durban Westville and Mangaung prisons, the other prisons have very few equipment for vocational training. The Drakenstein Management Area has made computer training a compulsory course for all the learners. The prison also has a well equipped woodwork, metal work and steel workshop where inmates are taught different skills. Mangaung also has shoe making and candle making workshops. In all the above prisons formal education is provided. There was little vocational training in the Leeuwkop prison. The Dyambu and Leseding Youth Centres provide formal education from grade 7 -12 and a wide range of skills development activities including painting, motor mechanic, woodwork, metal work, etc. In most of the prisons, vocational training for trades such as woodwork, metal work, steel work and building is given only to male inmates. In the Durban Female Correctional Centre, women are engaged in sewing and laundry only and because there are few machines, not all of them participate. The only prison visited with no vocational training programme is the Stanger Prison. The prison has no form of education for prisoners – either formal or vocational. Except for the Dyambu and Leseding Youth Centre, persons awaiting trial in all the prisons are not involved in any activities – whether formal or vocational. 50