Three days after his brazen escape, Pollsmoor prisoner Yanga Wayithi is back behind bars. The Department of Correctional Services confirmed that Wayithi was apprehended in the early hours of ...

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 ...

Karyn Maughan has spent years writing about the depressing state of South Africa's criminal justice system. But it was inside the inmate-run Pollsmoor prison restaurant that she experienced something ...

CAPE TOWN - A 35-year-old inmate who escaped from the Pollsmoor Correctional Centre ... to a work team responsible for maintaining the prison grounds when he made a run for it on Tuesday.

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 ...

Yanga Wayithi was serving a six-month sentence for theft and trespassing when he fled from the prison grounds earlier ... is that security protocols at Pollsmoor are under review to prevent ...