The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) says a R726.57 cooking oil price shown in its records referred to a 25‑litre container, not a single litre, and...
Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald has told Parliament that South Africa’s prison system is under severe strain, with 169,519 inmates, including more than 63,000 remand detainees,...
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services has criticised the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) after renegotiations of supplier contracts revealed what the committee described as shockingly...
Minister of Correctional Services Pieter Groenewald has told Parliament that 2,388 correctional officials were subjected to disciplinary action in the 2025/26 financial year amid investigations into...
It is proving to be a testing time for Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie as allegations against him pile up. Just last week, ActionSA MP Dereleen James filed criminal...
Parliament Draws A Firm Line On Bester’s Request South Africans have followed the Thabo Bester saga closely over the past few years, from his dramatic prison...
A 47-year-old social worker from the Voorberg Correctional Centre in Porterville is at the centre of a growing scandal after she was arrested for allegedly trying...
South Africa’s prison system is facing a severe safety crisis, with 30 inmates dying of unnatural causes in just nine months last year, a parliamentary committee has heard....
A Quiet Transfer That Spoke Loudly Just days before Christmas, Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala was quietly moved out of Pretoria, but the implications of that transfer are...
For the second time in just over a year, convicted murderer Najwa Petersen has been told she is not yet fit for freedom. The Correctional Supervision...