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Not true: Gayton McKenzie, president of the Patriotic Front and mayor of Central Karoo District Municipality , denies his party is funded by gangsters and drug money linked to the late William ‘Red’ Stevens. Photo: Gallo Images/Sunday Times/Dudu Zitha
CHINELLE STEVENS

Recording alleges that gangsters, drugs fund the Patriotic Alliance

A regional treasurer has been caught explaining how the PA has allegedly been financed

  • Khaya Koko
12 min read
File photo: Marike de Klerk with her then husband, FW de Klerk. File photo
CAPE TOWN HIGH COURT

Marike de Klerk’s murderer granted parole

Twenty-two years after being handed two life sentences, Luyanda Mboniswa will be released on parole

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
Child killer: Norman Afzal Simons, the ‘Station Strangler’, arrives at the Kuils River magistrate’s court, Cape Town, in June 1994. (Leon Muller/AFP)
BRIAN MASHILE

Locked in: Parole system in South Africa works for no one

Reform is on the cards while life sentences pile up, causing major delays in applications

  • Eunice Masson
10 min read
Norman Simons was charged with 22 murders but only convicted of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old in Mitchells Plain
CANDICE VAN REENEN

‘Station Strangler’ due to be freed after 28 years in jail

Norman Simons was charged with 22 murders but only convicted of kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old in Mitchells Plain

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
A familiar face: Alison Botha spoke out publicly about her attack and wrote a book about it. But her newly freed attackers won’t be as easily recognised in public.
ALISON BOTHA

Rape survivor Alison Botha doesn’t know parole conditions of her attackers

She was raped, stabbed and had her throat slit by Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger in 1994. The judge said they should never get parole

  • Eunice Masson
6 min read
On Thursday, correctional services commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale said the findings of an investigation report “clearly revealed” Thabo Bester was assisted in his escape from custody on 3 May. Photo: Supplied
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

Thabo Bester escape a fraction of the rot at G4S-run private jail

However, abuse and torture at the prison have improved, the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services says

  • Eunice Masson
7 min read
CEDRIC MAAKE

Can South Africa’s parole system keep four serial killers locked behind bars?

It’s had a 99% success rate for parolees and probationers complying with release conditions over three years but an expert believes the system needs an overhaul

  • Eunice Masson
6 min read
The former spy boss responded to being incriminated at the Zondo commission by threatening to expose the president. (Paul Botes)
ANC

Fraser vs Nxele in court — again

The suspended KZN prisons boss was barred from entering his office by armed security staff last week, at the behest of his national counterpart

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
In sickness and in health: Former President Jacob Zuma waves at his supporters outside the Pietermaritzburg high court. (Photo by Gallo Images/Phill Magakoe)
ARMS DEAL

Zuma in hospital for observation

The former president was moved to an ‘outside’ facility on Thursday morning

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Former president Jacob Zuma. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
JACOB ZUMA

Zuma gets leave for brother’s funeral

The former president has already left Estcourt prison under heavy security

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
ESTCOURT CORRECTIONAL CENTRE

Zuma set to attend brother’s funeral on Thursday

Request is still ‘under consideration’ but sources say it will likely be approved and a security plan is in place

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Hundreds of people queue to enter a supermarket stoking a fear of food and fuel shortages in Durban on July 14, 2021 as several shops, businesses and infrastructure are damaged in the city, following five nights of continued violence and looting sparked by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma. – So far, 72 people have died and more than 1,200 people arrested, since former president Jacob Zuma began a 15-month jail term for contempt, sparking protests that swiftly turned violent. The violence, targeting malls and other economic hotspots has seen shops and infrastructure destroyed. (Photo by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP)
ARMS DEAL TRIAL

KwaZulu-Natal gets back to work as fears of second shutdown fail to materialise

Taxi boss Mandla Gcaba went on radio at the weekend to deny his taxis would be used to shuttle protesters to support his cousin, Jacob Zuma

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Right to healthcare: Edwin Cameron, the inspecting judge at the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services. Photo: Madelene Cronjé
BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS

‘Vaccinate inmates to avoid crisis’

Delaying the vaccination of prisoners could lead to a public health disaster

  • Chris Gilili
3 min read
Kgosi Mampuru sources claimed that negligence was rife at the facility, resulting in the suspicious deaths of inmates, as well as the brazen escape of 9 December 2020. (Oupa Nkosi, M&G)
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

Escapees still at large amid negligence allegations at Tshwane prison

The escape of violent offenders has exposed a slew of alleged negligent deaths at Kgosi Mampuru prison

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read
CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

Inside the brazen prison break at Kgosi Mampuru

Negligence and staff shortages are blamed for after two violent criminals escaped from the prison

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read