Zola Tongo was jailed for 18 years for murdering Anni Dewani, right, during her Cape Town honeymoon with Shrien Dewani in November 2010.Zola Tongo, the taxi driver mastermind of the 2010 murder of Swedish honeymoon bride Anni Dewani, had his parole withdrawn a day before he was due to walk free.
After serving half of his 18-year sentence, Tongo was due to go home on July 28 from Malmesbury prison, 60km outside Cape Town, where officials say he has been a model prisoner. But on July 27, correctional services officials told him his parole had been withdrawn and was being reviewed.Image:“He was devastated,” said a source close to Tongo after meeting him this week. “He still is devastated. His bags were packed, he had said his goodbyes to his friends and he and his family were looking forward to reuniting outside prison the next day. But it was not to be.”
It was also hard accepting that correctional services officials had signed his parole withdrawal on July 10 but only told him on July 27.Tongo had been looking forward to his release since May 27 when the parole board decided he had ticked all the rehabilitation boxes.
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