But how long he stays there is not a matter for the courts to decide By FRANNY RABKIN Former president Jacob Zuma Image: Bloomberg The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application for leave to appeal about former president Jacob…
Hope that EC rhino poaching surge will end as remaining two escapees rearrested The last two among the five rhino poachers who escaped from Makhanda’s prison in October last year are back behind bars. Nhambo Muyambo and Francis Chitiyo…
UPDATE 10am Wednesday 12 April: South African Police Service spoksperson Warrant Officer Majola Nkohli issued the following statement: On Tuesday, 11 April 2023, the accused person, Abraham Moyana (34), briefly appeared in the Makhanda…
Five convicted rhino poachers who escaped from Waainek Correctional facility in Makhanda in the early hours of Tuesday 18 October were simply delaying the inevitable, said senior prosecutor Buks Coetzee. The five were awaiting sentencing…
All inmates who enter a correctional facility must be screened and quarantined for 14 days before being housed with other prisoners. This is according to directives published by justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola on…
Over a period of 30 days‚ 2‚280 prisoners were released on parole across SA‚ and the correctional services department hopes about 19‚000 more will be released in the next month. None of these who were released had reoffended. Department…
The law has finally caught up with two service providers who allegedly stole more than R3m a decade ago from the health department in the Eastern Cape. They allegedly used computer monitoring software to record keystrokes on computers,…
Minister of justice and correctional services Ronald Lamola joined members of the department’s emergency support teams to conduct a raid at the Durban Westville prison on September 20 2019. Officials were astonished to find how inmates…
