Discover the dark reality behind Cape Town's pristine suburbs, where local gangs and foreign syndicates have established a ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- A 14-year-old girl is gang-raped and stabbed repeatedly and then her throat is slit. A gang leader is gunned down outside a courthouse -- in full view of the police. Drugs, ...

Foreign-owned spaza shop owners in parts of Cape Town have kept mum on reports that they are relying on extortion gangs for ...

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 ...

Police said five men were gathered outside a residential block of flats when a vehicle with several occupants emerged.

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 ...

South African soldiers will deploy in Cape Town's crime-ridden townships after a surge of shootings, gang violence and murders in one of the country's top tourist destinations, the head of the defence ...

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. The Barron's news ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African soldiers were deployed to gang-ridden Cape Town suburbs on Thursday to help quell escalating violence that has killed hundreds this year and that officials have ...

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, residents gathered in at least four communities in Cape Town in a united protest against gang violence. In Kensington and Bonteheuwel, riot police outnumbered ...