South African ‘blade runner’ was released on parole last year after murdering his girlfriend in 2013 and has opted to keep a ...

South African stage legend John Kani has become known for films such as “Black Panther,” and now stars in his play “Kunene ...

Yanga Wayithi was serving a six-month sentence for theft and trespassing when he fled from the prison grounds earlier this ...

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 ...

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

This afternoon the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) confirmed that an inmate, a 35-year-old man named Yanga Wayithi, ...

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

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

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 ...