Jacques Jacobus Alwyn Botha has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the brutal murder of sex worker Zodwa Angelina ...

Anti-apartheid activist and the late former president Nelson Mandela’s friend, Mac Maharaj, described former president Jacob ...

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

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.

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

A Kimberley court sentenced a man for raping a mentally disabled woman at a hospital. He was given 15 years, and South ...

A former Top 10 student at student became a high-achieving matriculant while behind bars. The inmate got his act together for ...

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

Rapper J Molley ditches hip-hop for gospel after surviving brutal street attacks and a near prison sentence. He vows to leave ...

Violent crime in South Africa has consistently been highly concentrated in a small number of urban areas. For example, 20% of ...