Johannesburg - Protests at Diepsloot spun out of control by on Tuesday evening ... This is God's way of showing their anger. We cannot stay in shacks when officials live nicely," he said. "(Gauteng ...

The men are accused of being criminals and terrorizing Diepsloot, a dense township north of Johannesburg, where hundreds of thousands of people live, mostly in flimsy shacks and extreme poverty.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...