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

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

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

Madiba spent 18 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island and was later moved to other prisons on the mainland before ...

Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. During a recent interview with The Sunday Times, ...

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

She said non-South Africans at prisons incarcerated were 22 612 and ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing ...

A Kimberley court sentenced a man for raping a mentally disabled woman at a hospital. He was given 15 years, and South ...

Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West prisons hold the highest number of foreign national inmates in South Africa, with 14 920 foreigners behind bars across the country as of January 2025.

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

The Department of Correctional Services has launched a manhunt for an inmate who escaped from the Pollsmoor Correctional ...

During a recent interview with The Sunday Times, the 52-year-old actor detailed the extremes he went to while working on the biopic, which documents Mandela’s 27 years in prison in South Africa.