Pollsmoor Prison is regarded as the largest prison in the Western Cape Province. The facility is also regarded as one of the most dangerous prisons in South Africa. It was meant to host 3,900 ...

Karyn Maughan has spent years writing about the depressing state of South Africa's criminal justice system. But it was inside the inmate-run Pollsmoor prison restaurant that she experienced something ...

Three of the four police officers accused of a multi-million rand heist have been released on bail, while one remains in ...

Police said that Jacobus Groenewald was caught with 200 mandrax tablets at Pollsmoor Prison. Groenewald was granted bail of R1,000 in the Wynberg Magistrates Court. However, he'll remain in ...

The first of more than 60 meetings between Barnard and Mandela took place in Pollsmoor prison outside ... was born on June 14 1949 in Otjiwarongo, South West Africa (now Namibia), where his ...

The Pollsmoor prisons ... Regulation 104(2); a judge may visit any prison in South Africa, a magistrate any prison within his jurisdiction. 100 See also, Van Zyl Smit, Prison Law and Practice ...