In an attempt to safeguard themselves, residents in an informal section of Diepsloot erected enormous zinc sheet gates between the main road and their shacks in 2021.

After delays caused by protests and infrastructure setbacks, Tanganani Primary School in Diepsloot has finally opened.

Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.

Diepsloot residents are adamant on who is responsible for most crime in the area. “Most of the people that are robbing people here in Diepsloot, they are foreign nationals from Zimbabwe.

Dozens of Diepsloot residents were seen arguing with security officials at the gate of the Youth Centre Hall over access to a stakeholder meeting over the state of the area amid the recent ...

In Diepsloot, frustrated and angry residents no longer wait for the police to arrest alleged criminals. They often corner the suspects themselves and bludgeon and burn them to death.

CIVIL UNREST Diepsloot: Families mourn deaths of loved ones amid rising anger In an effort to help reduce crime residents have installed gates at the entrances of some of their roads.

A dog was left for dead after a vicious beating, but is now learning to live with one eye and his spirit is stronger than ...

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

Diepsloot residents apprehensively peeking through their corrugated iron gates say they will now be able to sleep peacefully as police patrolled the streets following a spate of killings and protests ...

Bloodstains litter the bright pink entrance gate to the small grouping of shacks where Elvis Nyathi, a 43-year-old Zimbabwean, was killed in a mob attack in Diepsloot on Wednesday night after a ...