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.

Johannesburg - Twenty-five families have been left homeless after their shacks caught fire in Diepsloot, spokesperson for the Johannesburg emergency service says. The fire was caused by a paraffin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A six-month-old baby girl died when flames engulfed her family's Diepsloot shack on Friday, Johannesburg Emergency Services said. Spokesperson Percy Morokane said the infant was asleep at the ...

When the heavy rains fell on Monday, 9 October, rats in Diepsloot scurried into residents’ shacks for shelter. Resident David Mokgalaka said, “During the [recent] heavy rainfall, the sewer ...