South African police rescue about 200 people chained up in unregistered 'rehab centre'

South African police have rescued around 200 people found chained and held in inhumane conditions inside an unregistered rehabilitation centre. Officers described the facility as operating entirely outside legal oversight, with those inside kept as 'hostages' rather than patients receiving care.

The centre was unregistered, meaning it had no official authorisation to hold or treat anyone.

Those rescued were described as being chained up in conditions police called 'inhumane'.