The Democratic Alliance will write to the Minister of Correctional Services, Dr. Pieter Groenewald, to demand a detailed explanation of the immediate measures his Department will take to prevent ...

Yanga Wayithi had been assigned to a work team responsible for maintaining the facility’s grounds when he escaped.

The Public Protector gave the department 30 days to develop an escape prevention strategy, and guidelines for the Mangaung ...

According to the department, Yanga Wayithi was successfully arrested again at about 1.30am on Wednesday morning.

The Correctional Services portfolio committee isn't in favour of privately-run prisons being in operation beyond their ...

The prison escape comes as the DCS briefs parliament on actions taken from the Public Protector's report on Thabo Bester.

The Department of Correctional Services was criticised on Tuesday when it briefed Parliament on its action plan to comply with remedial action of Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka in the report on the ...

Concerns persist over security at the facility, particularly after the dramatic escape of convicted murderer and rapist Thabo ...

It’s been three years since Bester escaped from the privately run Mangaung Correctional Centre, but the matter is still not ...

JOHANNESBURG - Yet another delay in the trial of convicted Facebook rapist, Thabo Bester, and the co-accused implicated in his escape from a Mangaung prison. The trial was expected to begin on Monday ...