Diepsloot is one of the flashpoints. Van Halter remembers when two toddler girls went missing from their shack a few months ago. She holds a photo of their bloated bodies, limbs twisted.

Murder, rape and violent robbery happen every day in Diepsloot, and residents accuse ... residents who mostly live in a sprawling maze of shacks made from scrap metal and wood, is the "perfect ...

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 ...

Mulauzi had, a few minutes earlier, confirmed over a mobile telephone that she was nowhere near Diepsloot. - The final snapshot is of a shack on top of a dusty hillock in Extension 1. Apparently ...

"At about 10:00, the community of Diepsloot Extension One was addressed by their councillor," said Msimango. The meeting concerned the removal of some of the shacks in the area. "After the meeting the ...

or being locked into their shacks, which were then set alight. In Diepsloot, northwest of Johannesburg, one of the townships hit by violence, locals described heavily armed attackers singing “Um ...

They would remain in custody, said Captain Tsekiso Mofokeng. The baby was found dead and mutilated in a shack in Diepsloot, northern Johannesburg, on Sunday morning. Police spokesperson Captain ...

Diepsloot - The shebeen in Diepsloot starts filling up early on a Friday. There are several hours left in the workday but the patrons have no work to go to and little diversion among the dusty streets ...

A two-year-old baby and a 26-year-old woman perished in a Diepsloot shack fire incident on Tuesday. According to spokesperson for Johannesburg Emergency Management Services (EMS), Xolile Khumalo ...

Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Bloodstains litter the bright pink entrance gate to the small grouping of shacks where ...