​Recommendations 
 

The recommendations have been broken into  different sections indicating the role each sector of society can and should play in enhancing the protection of the rights of persons 

I. To Government 
 

Members of civil society, especially  NGOs should constantly visit prisons and other places of detention to ensure that the government is meeting its domestic as well as international human rights obligations towards persons deprived of their liberty: encourage and organise  retreats and workshops for prison officials and inform them of best practices in other penal systems in Africa and around the world; support the efforts of government by assisting in promoting the welfare of prisoners. 
 

Prison officials should be more involved in monitoring the welfare of prisoners and desist from sponsoring one gang against the other. Heads of prison should develop strategies to combat corruption by prison officials. To this end, complaints boxes should be posted outside each cell where prisoners can submit confidential complaints. The key to these boxes shall be with the Heads of the Institutions or someone duly designated by them. All complaints must be treated in confidence (...); 

The donor and international community should continue their support to the prison sector in South Africa. Emphasis should be placed on staff training, curriculum development and the establishment of programmes that would emphasise prisoners’ rehabilitation and reintegration into society (...);
 

a) The Commission of the African Union should collaborate with members of the Southern African Development Community to explore the possibility of prisoner exchange. To this end, the African Union should organise in collaboration with SADC a meeting of SADC Ministers of Corrections: and should make prisons and conditions of detention an important indicator in the peer review process of the NEPAD.