27 Pollsmoor Prison inmates received certificates after completing an eight-week creative writing course. (AFP/Rodger Bosch)
For a group of inmates incarcerated at Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town, it was a case of art imitating life after some of them wrote short stories based on the shocking crimes they committed.
One of them is budding author Joshlita Kamfer who relived the moments she fatally stabbed a family friend after he physically abused her and tried to “touch” her when she was 14.
Kamfer, now 18, who was convicted of murder in 2021 and sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, has penned her story about the murder after participating in an eight-week creative writing and narrative therapy programme.
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