Zaid Seedat sued the Minister of Correctional Services after he contracted the disease while he was being held at Pollsmoor ...
After a 21-year fight for justice, Zaid Seedat is awarded R1 million for contracting TB in Pollsmoor Prison, as the Western ...
A stay in the Western Cape’s Pollsmoor prison can turn into a death sentence, as was evidenced when two inmates recently died of leptospirosis, a disease spread by rats. Sonke Gender Justice and ...
Manelisi Wolela, spokesperson for the department of correctional services, confirmed to Al Jazeera on Saturday that around 4 100 detainees were being evacuated from Pollsmoor to prevent a massive ...
Late in 2014, the Visitors Committee for Pollsmoor, the Treatment Action Campaign, Sonke Gender Justice, Lawyers for Human Rights and the Bonteheuwel Support Group for ex-offenders said in their ...
Operations at Pollsmoor prison in Cape Town are back to normal after a two-week lockdown triggered by the stabbing of a prison warder by an inmate on June 27, the department of correctional services ...
Ahead of a performance in Cape Town, ex-convict and award-winning Afro-soul singer Nathi Mankayi, from Maclear, Eastern Cape, reached out to the Department of Correctional Services to request a ...
Cape Town - Girelda* is playing with her 11-month-old daughter on the bed they share in their home in Macassar. The pair have just been released on parole together. The child was born in Pollsmoor ...
National Correctional Services Commissioner Samuel Thobakgale says tough action will be taken against officials found to be in the wrong in the erroneous release of inmates from Pollsmoor. Several ...
The image and the smell are seared into memory: Eighty-six men squeezed into a room designed for 19. So little space, they could only stand or squat. Earlier this year, after gaining exclusive access ...
Cape Town - Girelda* is playing with her 11-month-old daughter on the bed they share in their home in Macassar. The pair have just been released on parole together. The child was born in Pollsmoor ...
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