Beaten, poisoned, left to suffer, these dogs’ stories expose the harsh reality of animal abuse in our communities.

Balls clack and bottles clink as men shoot pool inside a smoky tavern in Diepsloot, a sprawling, impoverished township north of Johannesburg. The table on which they’re playing is cracked ...

Volunteers in the Diepsloot Township in Johannesburg are turning illegally dumped plastic into “ecobricks” that are then used to build classrooms for after-school programs. The innovative idea ...

Sullen young men sit on cracked plastic chairs in a tavern in Diepsloot, a vast impoverished township on the northern outskirts of the country’s largest city, Johannesburg. They suck on big ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Last weekend, the men of Diepsloot township, north of Johannesburg, searched the community’s shacks for two missing toddlers. They looked around the shops and ...

Until Anton Harber went back to his journalistic roots, spent months in the township and wrote “Diepsloot”, there wasn’t any way to get an accurate perspective on the township, ...

Residents of Diepsloot are calling on the government to build a public hospital in the area, citing life-threatening delays in accessing emergency tertiary healthcare. Many patients reportedly die ...

Vigilantes are burning rapists to death in the South African township of Diepsloot, near Johannesburg. But even that will not stop them. For BBC Africa Eye, crime reporter Golden Mtika exposes on ...

Diepsloot Protest | Township on a knife-edge . Wednesday 21 June 2023 - 07:00am . JOHANNESBURG - Diepsloot residents say they will continue to protest until President Cyril Ramaphosa comes to ...

Community leaders in South Africa’s violence-prone Diepsloot township say foreigners were not involved in the shooting to death of two people in the area on Friday, almost two weeks after Zimbabwean ...

Vigilantes are burning rapists to death in the South African township of Diepsloot, near Johannesburg. But even that will not stop them. For BBC Africa Eye, crime reporter Golden Mtika exposes on ...