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 ...

Four people have been confirmed dead, and a seven-year-old child injured following a suspected gang-related shooting in ...

Members of different communities in Cape Town, Western Cape, who are victims of gang violence, appealed to the warring gangs Gang violence claimed scores of lives in 2025 after a high number of ...

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 ...

Three weeks after bullets rang out in a quiet Kensington street, one of Cape Town’s most recognisable alleged gang figures has died in hospital. Daily Voice reports that Igsaan ‘Sanie American’ Davids ...

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 ...

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 ...

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has raised concern over gangs allegedly using spaza shops as a ...

Three women and a man were killed, and a 7-year-old child injured in a suspected gang-related shooting in Wesbank in Kuils ...

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

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 ...