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 ...

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.

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.

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 Pollsmoor Correctional Centre inmate who escaped from the facility in Cape Town this week, has been rearrested. RELATED | Pollsmoor Prison: 10 notable former inmates The Department of ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The girl, Joshlin Smith, is still missing, and the case has haunted South Africa. Prosecutors said that the mother was addicted to drugs and had sold the girl for about $1,100. By Lynsey Chutel ...