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Over the last 24 years, the global prison population has increased by 27%. In Africa, the prison population has grown significantly by 53%. Here are the top 10 African countries with the highest ...
More than 97 percent of the prison population in South Africa at the end of 2016 was listed as black or colored, according to Africa Check, a nonprofit fact-checking organization.
South Africa: Gangs of Cape Flats. For more than 50 years, street gangs have been a defining part of life in the so-called “coloured” communities of the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa.
Johannesburg - South Africa has the highest prison population in Africa, Correctional Services Minister Sbu Ndebele said on Monday. “(We are) currently ranked ninth in the world in terms of ...
Nelson Mandela and former U.S. President Bill Clinton look to the outside from Mandela's Robben Island prison cell in Cape Town, South Africa, in this photo from March 27, 1998.
Nelson Mandela and former U.S. President Bill Clinton look to the outside from Mandela's Robben Island prison cell in Cape Town, South Africa, in this photo from March 27, 1998.