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 ...

“Show them, show them, show them,” they chant. The men are accused of being criminals and terrorizing Diepsloot, a dense township north of Johannesburg, where hundreds of thousands of people ...

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.

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

Just north of Johannesburg’s flashy suburbs lies Diepsloot. The sprawling township is a congregation of wooden and corrugated iron shacks. Many youths are hoping to improve their lives and the ...

the people of Diepsloot township began drifting from their shacks and little houses in the early afternoon: the jobless, the orphans with dreams of being soccer stars, the old men wearing their ...

Protesters targeted shacks belonging to foreign nationals who they say are behind criminal activities in the area and set them alight.

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.

THE Diepsloot township near Johannesburg erupted in anger yesterday when it emerged that another two toddler girls had been murdered there... THE Diepsloot township near Johannesburg erupted in ...

Mpho Mpshane can’t wait to escape the whiff of kerosene and the Tupperware-munching rats in her car-sized shack in Diepsloot township. Every Monday, Mpshane (56) makes the trip in a crowded ...