The colourful, dynamic, robust and descriptive read delves the reader into the reality of Pollsmoor Prison in the Western ... he worked as a journalist for South African newspapers and government ...

Pollsmoor is South Africa's largest prison and one of the most overcrowded. GroundUp understands the hunger strike was called off once prisoners received news of the possibility of early release.

Dangerous inmates (convicted of rape and murder respectively) are missing at Pollsmoor Correction Centre ... not act against the porousness of the prison system. The DA demands urgent answers ...

A Pollsmoor Prison inmate escaped over the weekend while he was part of a work team responsible for maintaining the prison facility's grounds. Authorities have since launched a manhunt for him. He was ...

South Africa, for the first time since 1990. On my earlier trip, I had the honor of meeting Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie soon after his release from Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town.

The Department of Correctional Services has launched a manhunt for an inmate who escaped from the Pollsmoor Correctional Centre in Cape Town. RELATED | Pollsmoor Prison: 10 notable former inmates ...

Healthcare workers at Pollsmoor prison are facing a daunting task while caring for dozens of ill inmates because of a crisis in the jail's pharmacy. The prison shares one pharmacist with three ...

The Nobel Peace Prize winner is one of the most respected statesmen in history after spending 26 years in jail leading a peaceful revolution to lay the foundations of a liberated South Africa.

The ANC led the struggle against the racist system of apartheid, which ended in 1994 with the party's rise to power in South Africa's first ... Town's notorious Pollsmoor Prison.

Thirty years ago this week, South Africa ... was sentenced to life in prison. He spent 18 years in a tiny cell in Robbin Island Prison, below, and another six in Pollsmoor Prison.