It said he was initially detained “in a communal, lice-infested cell” in Pollsmoor with about 60 other awaiting trial inmates. About half of the inmates were not gang members, who in prison ...

Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed ... He also describes how, years later at Pollsmoor Prison, Mandela broke the news about his secret talks with the government. Strini Moodley's ...

Nelson Mandela – South Africa’s first president of a democratic South Africa was held in Pollsmoor prior to his release from prison by the apartheid government Marlene Lehnberg – Known as ...

A Pollsmoor inmate who escaped over the weekend while maintaining the prison's grounds has been rearrested. Yanga Wayithi was found on Wednesday morning. He was serving a six-month prison sentence for ...

Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed ... He also describes how, years later at Pollsmoor Prison, Mandela broke the news about his secret talks with the government. Strini Moodley's ...

A Pollsmoor Prison inmate escaped over the weekend while he was part of a work team responsible for maintaining the prison facility's grounds. Authorities have since launched a manhunt for him. He was ...

Police have launched a manhunt for a prisoner who escaped from Pollsmoor Prison in the Western Cape. The Department of Correctional Services confirmed that Yanga Wayithi, 35, who is serving a six ...

Additionally, security protocols at Pollsmoor Correctional Centre are under review to prevent similar incidents in the future.” Meanwhile, the plan to tighten prison security has left much to be ...

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed the escape of an inmate from the Pollsmoor Correctional ... the department handled Bester’s prison escape. Bester, dubbed the Facebook ...