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Escaped Pollsmoor prisoner Yanga Wayithi recaptured
Escaped Pollsmoor prisoner Yanga Wayithi recaptured! Three days after escaping from Pollsmoor Correctional Centre, prisoner Yanga Wayithi is back behind…
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Manhunt launched for escaped Pollsmoor prisoner Yanga Wayithi
Manhunt launched for escaped Pollsmoor prisoner Yanga Wayithi! Authorities are on high alert following the escape of a prisoner from…
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More than 170 inmates set to write final Matric exams in Correctional Service schools
As the highly-anticipated National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations approach, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has announced that a total…
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Prison authorities who delayed reporting Thabo Bester’s escape receive final written warnings
Department of Correctional Services (DCS) Minister, Pieter Groenewald, said all the prison officials who delayed reporting the escape of convicted…
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KZN police on high alert after convicted criminal escapes prison
Police in KwaZulu-Natal are on the hunt for a convicted criminal who escaped custody from the Waterval Correctional Centre earlier…
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DCS wants Treasury to add more funding to improve security & infrastructure at prisons
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) wants to meet with the National Treasury about additional funding to improve security and…
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Correctional Services Dept issues stern warning to repeat offenders after fire at Boksburg prison
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has issued a stern warning to repeat offenders at the Boksburg prison following a…
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Cellphones, drugs & money found in Westville prison raid
National Commissioner for the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), Makgothi Thobakgale, has hailed a raid at Durban’s Westville Correctional Centre…
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Thabo Bester reportedly ran a drug and pr0stitution business in jail
Female prison guards were part of a pr0stitution ring run by a powerful syndicate of inmates and guards – including…
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Correctional Services Dept confirms some prison officials implicated in a murder back at work
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed that some of the officials implicated in a murder case are back…
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Oscar Pistorius is back at home
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison and is at his uncle Arnold’s home. The Department of Correctional Services…
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Oscar Pistorius to be released from prison on Friday with strict conditions
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius will be released on Friday, 5 January but…
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Lawyers say Oscar Pistorius release might take time even if parole granted
Former South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp a decade ago, is…
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One dead, 2 injured in Limpopo prison riot
More than 3,000 inmates at the Kutama Sinthumule Correctional Centre just outside Louis Trichardt, Limpopo are being transferred to other…
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Jacob Zuma Foundation adamant former president has served his jail sentence
The Jacob Zuma Foundation remains adamant that the former president has served his time. This is on the back of…
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Plans on the way to parole convicted Cape Town child killer
In just 10 days, the notorious Station Strangler, Norman “Afzal” Simons, is set to be released in Cape Town after…
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2nd convicted r@pist who escaped from Ngqeleni prison on Freedom Day recaptured at hospital
Police in Mthatha have rearrested the second of two convicted rapists who escaped from Ngqeleni Correctional Services during Freedom Day.…
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Convicted r@pist who escaped on Freedom Day recaptured, 8 prison officials suspended
One of the two inmates who escaped from the Ngqeleni Correctional Centre in the Eastern Cape has been re-arrested. The…
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Thabo Bester: Employee arrested for allegedly manipulating cameras at Mangaung Prison
Police have confirmed that a 44-year-old employee contracted to a company that installs CCTV cameras at the Mangaung Correctional Centre…
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Thabo Bester allegedly paid warders R5 million
Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe to lay low after escaping from the Mangaung maximum security prison where he…
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Correctional Services will not renew prison contract with G4S after Thabo Bester escape
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has indicated it will not be renewing its contract with G4S to run Mangaung…
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Do not impose reconciliation on us, says Panyaza Lesufi on Janusz Walus parole
Gauteng ANC chairperson Panyaza Lesufi said Janusz Walus, the assassin who killed Chris Hani in 1993, should know he caused…
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Jacob Zuma served his time in prison & deserves to be free, says Zikalala
Former president Jacob Zuma has been released from the Correctional Services system after his 15 months sentence for contempt of…
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SCA reserves judgment in Jacob Zuma’s medical parole appeal bid
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has reserved judgment in former president Jacob Zuma’s appeal application to overturn a high…
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Arthur Fraser had right to overrule Medical Parole Advisory Board on Jacob Zuma release, SCA told
Arthur Fraser exercised his discretion as the former national commissioner of correctional services when he decided to release former president…
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Hillary Gardee murder suspect caught with phone in prison
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has launched has an investigation after one of the suspects connected to Hillary Gardee’s…
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Inmates to assist in flood relief efforts in KZN
Following widespread devastation in KwaZulu Natal, the Department of Correctional Services said it would be providing much-needed assistance to communities…
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Prison visits reinstated as National State of Disaster ends
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is reinstating prison visits at all correctional centres after President Cyril Ramaphosa terminated the…
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AfriForum to oppose Jacob Zuma’s medical parole ruling appeal
AfriForum says it will oppose former president Jacob Zuma’s application to appeal the Pretoria High Court’s judgment that reversed his…
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Arthur Fraser details reasons behind Jacob Zuma’s medical parole in court papers
Former Correctional Services national commissioner Arthur Fraser has yet again defended his decision to release former president Jacob Zuma on…
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Jacob Zuma’s special-plea hearing to remove NPA’s Billy Downer resumes
The Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wednesday will continue to hear former president Jacob Zuma’s special-plea application to recuse the National…
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President Ramaphosa welcomes Jacob Zuma’s release from jail while talking tough against crime
President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the decision to release former president Jacob Zuma, after the department of correctional services (DCS)…
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Former SA president Jacob Zuma undergoes surgery
Former President Jacob Zuma has undergone surgery at one of the hospitals outside the Estcourt Prison. Zuma who is serving…
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Former prisons boss asks for postponement in Bosasa corruption case
The case against four people accused of fraud and corruption between Bosasa and the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) was…
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Joburg prison officer killing: Popcru demands answers and wants heads to roll
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) is demanding answers over the apparent rape and murder of a 50-year-old…
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Female Correctional Services officer found in a pool of blood at Joburg prison
The body of a 50-year-old Correctional Services officer was discovered lying in a pool of blood at the Leeuwkop Correctional…
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We will strictly monitor Jacob Zuma’s movement while he’s at brother’s funeral, says DCS
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) on Thursday said that it would always monitor former President Jacob Zuma’s whereabouts while…
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Minister Lamola: Prisons overcrowded after 1 000s arrested over SA unrest
Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola says overcrowding in prison cells remains the most challenging issue following arrests…
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Prisoners allegedly fight for Jacob Zuma at Estcourt Correctional Centre
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has denied claims of a hunger strike at the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal.…
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Photos showing Jacob Zuma in prison leaked – This is how they were stolen
Officials confirmed that pictures of the former president in prison were authentic, but warned that sharing them was prohibited. Pictures…
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Popcru accuses correctional services of failing to reduce staff to 50% to curb Covid-19
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has accused the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) of failing to reduce…
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Prisoners complain about the excessive use of force by prison officials
The Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (JICS) said it has been approached by inmates, officials, and associations representing inmates, to…
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Video of 3 inmates allegedly beating up prison warder surfaces – Watch
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has labelled the videos that depicted three inmates assaulting an official as “fake news”.…
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Correctional Services official charged with raping his 7-year-old son
A Correctional Services official appeared in the Malmesbury Magistrate’s Court on Friday for the alleged rape of his 7-year-old son.…
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Update: Prison Warder in viral s.e.x video with an inmate identified – Correctional Services department speaks out
The department of correctional services has launched an investigation following a video of a prison official having s.e.x with an…
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Inmate’s death at Mangaung Prison raises concerns about rising violence in correctional centres
While the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) remains ambivalent about the extent of violence under its watch, the Judicial Inspectorate…
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Dept ramps up Covid-19 preventative measures at correctional facilities
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has ramped up its Covid-19 infection prevention control measures (IPC) at its correctional facilities…
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Minister Lamola officially opens Tzaneen Correctional Centre
Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola has officially opened the newly built Correctional Centre in Tzaneen. The state…
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Durban’s Westville prison inmates hospitalised after stabbing incident
All offenders involved in the incident will be degraded and transferred to eBongweni Maximum Centre and other maximum facilities outside…
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Inmates stab wardens at Westville Prison after morning meal
Several prison wardens were stabbed by inmates at Durban’s Westville Prison on Thursday, in what was called a “security-related incident”…
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