Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald has insisted he did not mislead Parliament about the whereabouts of three ...

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 ...

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As gender-based violence (GBV) returns to the spotlight amid the recent deaths of more women in South Africa, the DA has questioned the release of a convicted rapist.

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 ...

Simelalane-Mngadi said that not all ANC heroes were famous and that they were gathered to remember a man whose story is rarely told.

A devastating fire claimed the lives of two young children in the early hours of Tuesday morning, 13 May 2025.

Patricia de Lille on Friday took her crusade to secure the human rights of child inmates to Johannesburg prison ... Judge Hannes Fagan, South Africa's inspecting judge, believes that the country ...

Now prison authorities say paperwork ... section during an oversight visit to the Pollsmoor Correctional Centre on April 22, 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa. This is part of the Portfolio ...

Once a feared gangster and convicted murderer, Ivan Waldeck has become one of South Africa’s most ... encounter with Nelson Mandela at Pollsmoor Prison became a moment of reckoning.

South Africa has an extraordinarily high crime rate and there ... the plaintiff contracted TB as a result of his incarceration in the maximum security prison at Pollsmoor. She also found "that a ...

Against this grim backdrop, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) somehow let a convicted rapist waltz out of custody ...