113:), recidivists, habitual escapees, and the condemned. The section housing the white male political prisoners was an L-shaped three-storey building built in the late 1960s, consisting of 52 cells. As of 1978, the maximum number housed had been 22, with the average about 10; for this reason, the remaining cells were occupied by prisoners awaiting trial. The inmates included
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Central". In fact, there were three separate clusters of prisons: Pretoria Central Prison proper, Pretoria (Local) Prison and a third known only as "Maximum" or "Beverley Hills". The latter was the ultra-maximum-security section. There
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and squeezing through his tiny cell window 20 by 60 centimetres (8 by 24 in). Mathe had been detained on more than 50 charges, including murder, rape, armed robbery and hijacking. He was recaptured two weeks after his escape following a large manhunt.
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30:on 13 April 2013 and sometimes referred to as
16:Large prison in central Pretoria, South Africa
647:- Serial rapist, murderer and prison escapee.
236:"C-Max" redirects here. For the vehicle, see
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926:"S Africa manhunt after jailbreak"
144:In 1979 white political prisoners
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617:for the apartheid government.
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841:"Before the Hangman Arrives"
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890:"Escape from Pretoria"
860:"Escape from Pretoria"
760:"Escape from Pretoria"
613:which functioned as a
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424:Butana Almond Nofomela
813:Robert Adams (1998).
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209:Composition
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140:1979 escape
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1095:7 October
501:Air India
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226:death row
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