A year later, "nothing has changed", he says. In an attempt to safeguard themselves, residents in an informal section of Diepsloot erected enormous zinc sheet gates between the main road and their ...

There are no locks on the gates. Some of us don’t even have gates ... child was found in a dumpster about 50km from her home in Diepsloot. Now Mirriam and Julia join the hundreds of men and ...

In a country where several rapes are said to occur every minute, in a township where violence is commonplace, this was a crime that shocked the entire community of Diepsloot, South Africa.

The case has sparked outrage and demonstrations in the township Four men have been charged with the rape and murder of two toddlers in the South African township of Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg.

They don't hate foreigners, they are just criminals," Agnes Tshavengwa, Zimbabwean national and long-term resident of Diepsloot said. Approximately 80 small-scale shops and informal retailers were ...

Diepsloot is one of the city's most dangerous ... On Thursday, community members ushered children up the path to the school gates and scolded them for arriving only minutes before the first ...

Music sounds from the shacks of Diepsloot, one of Johannesburg's largest slums. The young filmmaker Simon Maringa and his friend Selby Masaba are singing and dancing to a self-composed song - a ...