Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, ...

Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen Anti-apartheid activist and the late former president Nelson Mandela’s friend, Mac ...

By Spoorthy Raman A South African court in January sentenced four poachers to several years in prison for two separate crimes ...

The Pollsmoor Correctional Centre inmate who escaped from the facility in Cape Town this week, has been rearrested.

Former Ugandan presidential candidate Kizza Besigye's health has deteriorated dramatically after launching a hunger strike to ...

A hunt has been launched for a man who escaped from Pollsmoor Prison while part of a work team carrying out maintenance on ...

Recent prison escapes in South Africa highlight the urgent need for the Department of Correctional Services to formulate a ...

The Department of Correctional Services has launched a manhunt for an inmate who escaped from the Pollsmoor Correctional ...

The debate on Ramaphosa’s speech continued into its second and final day at the Nieuwmeester Dome in Cape Town on Wednesday.

Madiba spent 18 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island and was later moved to other prisons on the mainland before ...

The township of Fateng Tse Ntsho houses some 7,000 Black South Africans, its huddle of corrugated metal roofs surrounded on ...

On Feb. 11, 1990, South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. (Mandela would be ...