Over the years, Thanjani Mangoma has dug many graves here at the cemetery in Diepsloot, a huge, impoverished township north of Johannesburg. But he says "it’s only the small graves" that affect him.

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 ...

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.

Johannesburg - Roads near Diepsloot township were safe for motorists on Monday morning following violent clashes with the police at the weekend, an official said. "For this morning, the road is safe," ...

They are not safe anywhere. It’s fucked up," Julia says. The two women spend about four months out of every year in Diepsloot to see their boyfriends, and the rest of the year is spent in Limpopo.

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 ...

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.