El Salvador's Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized crime to be housed in the same prisons as adults, albeit in separate areas.

In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at ...

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

The family of a man who was shot and killed by a former Presidential Protection Services sergeant for leaning against his car ...

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

The son of slaves, Ottaway Gurley would become a multi-millionaire and one of the richest African-Americans in the country.

Cape Town - A manhunt has been launched for a prisoner who meticulously planned his escape from Pollsmoor Correctional Centre ...

South Africa's Expropriation Act aims to fix land inequality, but sparks racial tension about property rights.

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

In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...

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

The case against convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester and his co-accused has been postponed to July. The trial was ...