South Africa's move to classify gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster raises expectations for urgent ...

Recent killings have sharpened public anger, with women demanding concrete steps to ease the fear they live with.

Hundreds of women wearing black have gathered in a Johannesburg park to protest gender-based violence in South Africa.

An audacious effort joined two disparate communities, who say they all suffer from the staggering violence and crime affecting the country.

The report also calls for the Domestic Violence Act regulations to be amended so that there is a dedicated form to be used for seizing firearms, which must be completed and returned to the court by ...

Catholic leaders have issued a joint statement condemning the rising wave of violence affecting schools across South Africa.

At least 11 people, among them a three-year-old boy, were killed in the early hours of Saturday when gunmen opened fire ...

Gunmen have killed at least 12 people, including a three-year-old boy, in a mass shooting at a bar near the South African ...

At least 11 people were killed, including three children, following a shooting at an unlicensed bar near Pretoria. Police are ...

Family ties may become strained for former South African President Jacob Zuma after his eldest daughter accused her ...

The other shoe dropped with a loud thud last week in South Africa. After eleven months of mounting black violence, Executive President P.W. Botha declared a state of emergency in 36 riot-torn cities ...