Horrific scenes saw over 160 women raped and children dead in fires after the prison break at Munzenze near Goma last Monday ...

The Pollsmoor Correctional Centre inmate who escaped from the facility in Cape Town this week, has been rearrested.

Former Ugandan presidential candidate Kizza Besigye's health has deteriorated dramatically after launching a hunger strike to ...

Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, ...

Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen Anti-apartheid activist and the late former president Nelson Mandela’s friend, Mac ...

At least 165 women were raped by male inmates during a mass breakout from a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said. The incident occurred in the Congolese city of Goma after M23 rebels ...

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates ...

A Pollsmoor Correctional Centre inmate who escaped from the facility in the Western Cape this week,has been rearrested.

The prison escape comes as the DCS briefs parliament on actions taken from the Public Protector's report on Thabo Bester.

Two associates of Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African ...

Recent prison escapes in South Africa highlight the urgent need for the Department of Correctional Services to formulate a ...