A Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security ...

South African opposition politician Julius Malema has been found guilty of illegal possession of a gun and firing it in public, offences which carry a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.

A Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without charge or ...

Former Police Minister Bheki Cele told Parliament that South Africa’s biggest crimes were planned in prisons, urging that ...

Parole applications average over 20 000 per year, but of those granted freedom, roughly one in four return to prison.

Carte Blanche shines a spotlight on a remarkable artistic milestone inside South Africa’s prisons, where inmates are telling ...

A Pretoria High Court has ordered former South African President Jacob Zuma to repay about $1.6 million to the Office of the ...

The proposal by Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis to install cellphone signal-blocking technology at Pollsmoor Prison has triggered a national debate on prison security, crime prevention, and the ...

A convicted woman claims she pleaded guilty by mistake to fraud allegedly committed at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, saying her lawyers entered the wrong plea.

Court interpreters are robed for the first time in South Africa, underscoring their crucial function in the legal system.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— "September '77, Port Elizabeth weather fine. It was business as usual, in police room 619," go the opening lines of singer Peter Gabriel's famous anti-apartheid anthem from ...