In a community burdened by poverty, food insecurity, and environmental struggles, a groundbreaking retail initiative is ...

In this second in a three-part series on the childhood literacy crisis, Anna Cox and Cecilia Russell report on a project that uses jobless young people as reading tutors in Diepsloot. The results ...

So he became scared and he said, ‘I am from Mpumalanga [in South Africa].’ They said, ‘No, you are not talking the truth. You are Zimbabwean and you are a criminal.

The tavern in Diepsloot township on the outskirts of Johannesburg starts filling up early on a Friday. There's no job!" says unemployed 29-year-old Elias, summarising the dashed hopes of many tens of ...

Five men go on trial in South Africa, accused of the kidnap, rape and murder of two toddler girls in Diepsloot township near Johannesburg. CNN values your feedback 1.

Reporting from Diepsloot, South Africa — Far from the soccer traffic jams, just beyond the wealthy gated community, the people of Diepsloot township began drifting from their shacks and little ...

DIEPSLOOT, South Africa – Ersido Ayele is still wearing the same pants, shirt and sweatshirt he had on when some 40 looters broke through the corrugated iron roof of his corner store almost ...

DIEPSLOOT, South Africa – At dusk, Joshua Masekoameng burrows into his history books as an escape from the shantytown that is his home, but it is hard to ignore the setting. A high school senior, he ...

In this second in a three-part series on the childhood literacy crisis, Anna Cox and Cecilia Russell report on a project that ...

Five men go on trial in South Africa, accused of the kidnap, rape and murder of two toddler girls in Diepsloot township near Johannesburg. CNN values your feedback 1.