Despite sophisticated surveillance systems, experts say gang violence in Cape Town is sustained by weak institutions, poverty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Four people have been killed in a shooting in Lotus River, Cape Town. Four people were killed, and a fifth was injured in a ...

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

Despite a decline in murders across the Western Cape, new crime statistics reveal ongoing gang violence, extortion-linked ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...