EXCLUSIVE: South Africa’s Showmax is to tell the unbelievable true story of a convicted murderer and rapist who faked his own death by burning in his cell and escaped prison for a year. Scroll ...

Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian who murdered his model girlfriend inside his home in 2013, was released on parole from a South African prison on Friday, serving only half his sentence.

An African gulag so ghastly that inmates risk death to escape. Forty-two former prisoners in Eritrea’s sprawling detention system described horrific conditions and frequent torture.

Operating inside South African prisons, this ruthless gang follows a violent code that dictates survival and power. Learn how they control entire prison systems with deadly precision. Into the Shadows ...

The prison system in South Africa is under fire after mistakenly believing a burned body found in a cell belonged to a serial rapist who, instead, had escaped (File: AFP) Published On 27 Mar 2023 ...

The fifth African Workshop on Prison Infrastructure, convened on 9 June 2025, in Windhoek, Namibia, marking a critical step forward in the continent’s efforts to reform correctional systems through ...

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma was returned to prison on Friday to comply with a ruling that his release on ill health was unlawful – but was freed after just an hour under a ...

South African authorities have taken over management of a maximum-security prison run by a private British security firm after a high-profile convicted murderer was accused of faking his own death ...

Ralph Stanfield, the alleged leader of the 28s street gang, has leveraged his criminal notoriety on the streets to achieve something exceptional in the South African prison system: rapid induction ...

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma was returned to prison on Friday to comply with a ruling that his release on ill health was unlawful – but was freed after just an hour under a ...