Pretoria Central Prison, renamed Kgosi Mampuru II Management Area by former President Jacob Zuma on 13 April 2013[1] and sometimes referred to as Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Services[2] is a large prison in central Pretoria, within the City of Tshwane in South Africa.

[2] The new name is the same as the street name (renamed in the previous year), with both now bearing the name of Kgosi Mampuru, a 19th-century local chief who resisted Boer rule and was subsequently hanged in 1883.

The section housing the white male political prisoners was an L-shaped three-storey building built in the late 1960s, consisting of 52 cells.

The inmates included Denis Goldberg (who had been sentenced at the Rivonia Trial with Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders), Raymond Suttner, and Jeremy Cronin.

[11] The complex was renamed Kgosi Mampuru II Management Area by President Jacob Zuma on 13 April 2013.

[2] The division is specifically designed for violent and disruptive prisoners who have been classified as dangerous in terms of the South African Criminal Procedure Act.

Mathe, who had extensive military training gained during the Mozambique civil war, is reported to have escaped by covering his body in Vaseline and squeezing through his tiny cell window 20 by 60 centimetres (8 by 24 in).