A streak of killings in South Africa's dangerous ganglands in Cape Town has led communities to demand protection as city officials say they lack the resources to stop the violence. "One gangster, one ...

Alleged Americans gang leader Igsaan 'Sanie American' Davids has died from injuries sustained in a Kensington shooting.

Police, community watch members, and residents patrol the Mitchells Plain neighborhood of Cape Town, South Africa. Christian Putsch By Patricia Huon, Contributor Cape Town, South Africa On a recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Lifman was killed as he walked back to his car at a mall in the Western Cape Prowling the fairways of Fancourt Golf Estate, ...

Cape Town is widely known for its natural beauty and thriving tourism industry, yet many communities on the outskirts of the city face a very different reality. Areas on the Cape Flats such as ...

South African soldiers on Thursday started patrolling Cape Town's crime-ridden townships under a deployment ordered by the government to counter a surge of shootings, gang violence and murders. The ...

The probe will investigate various crime dynamics, gang economies, and illegal firearms, as well as drugs and extortion.

Cape Town is not outside South Africa. Cape Town is not too well-managed to be captured. Cape Town is not innocent because it ...

A shocking gang-related shooting in Delft has claimed the lives of four individuals, including a young boy on Wednesday evening: ...

We need partners to win the fight against drugs and gangsterism. Some of our communities face serious challenges. Many of them relate to historical patterns of structural inequali ...

The soldiers have joined the SAPS-led operation in Rocklands, Mitchells Plain, at the start of a year-long deployment to crime hotspots in the Western Cape.

Gang-related crime in South Africa is widespread, but is under-reported outside hotspots such as the Cape Flats in Cape Town or Westbury in Johannesburg. In these areas gangs are deeply rooted and ...