Kaizer Chiefs partners with Correctional Services and FIFA Foundation to rehabilitate inmates

This is part of the Twinning project with the FIFA Foundation and the Department of Correctional Services.

Motaung was speaking to SABC Sport after the launch of the Twinning project, which saw the female inmates being taken through football clinics by the Chiefs technical staff. She says through this training and mentorship, they are playing their part in successfully integrating the offenders back into society.

"Very important for us. It's critical for us to be good citizens in the community and what an important project in saying football can change lives, lives that need changing and for us to come into this facility, working with the FIFA Foundation, Twinning Foundation and the Department of Correctional Services, very critical for us," Motaung said.

"Exciting to be able to give hope to those who need hope. The programme runs with this cohort of women being trained then we have another that will come. It's about longevity, it's not just about doing one event and that's it. It's really just about saying, how do we impact more than just a few people and also to support the programmes that are happening in the prisons and in the facilities of this nature."

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Deputy Minister of Correctional Services Lindiwe Ntshalintshali was also in attendance for this Twinning project.

She says they are preparing the inmates for life when they return to their communities.

"For us, it's quite a good programme because it's giving a chance to our inmates in terms of coaching clinics. You can see they are busy on the field, they've been skilled in terms of tackling, dribbling and how they must play on the field and some of them are given sessions closer by coaches that are reputable from Kaizer Chiefs and the technical team which we appreciate,” Ntshalintshali said.

“We do this as part of the social integration programmes, those social integration programmes we're preparing them as they exit our facilities. They must know there are things that they can do, the skills that they can part with the outside world because here they are in our facility to be taken through a process of rehabilitation and preparing them, reintegration to communities."