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The couple wins this title because of their heinous crimes – and because of what their sorry tale says about the state and our broader society.

The problem is not the people; there is no shortage of skills, imagination, energy. We can turn homophobia and HIV into an opera, nogal. We have all the parts and people, the ideas and institutions, to build a fair and just country. We just don’t know how to make them work together.

The history of South Africa’s struggle against apartheid (separatist white minority rule) is taught only through the broadest of brushstrokes in the country’s schools.

A 26-member theatre ensemble aims to bring history to light in a fresh way.

The awaiting trial section of the Pietermaritzburg prison — which was designed to accommodate 350 prisoners, currently has 650 inmates.

The department of correctional services says there have been fewer escapes from South African prisons in the year between April 2022 and March 2023 than there were in previous year, the period April 2020 to March 2021

Briefing Parliament on its annual report on Thursday, the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons (JICS) noted that the year in review also recorded the highest number of remand detainees ever in the past decade.

The issue of overcrowding in the country’s prisons was once again a concern raised in Parliament on Thursday when the Department of Correctional Services presented its annual report.

‘We applaud and thank Sars on the positive move that theyve made and indeed, this will yield a lot of results and we will see this corruption being rooted out of Eskom and less load shedding in the future,’ says crime and security analyst, Calvin Rafadi.

In his address at the Mission Accessibility Annual Day held at the India International Centre, Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri, a former judge of the Supreme Court of India, and Patron-in-Chief, Mission...