JOHANNESBURG — An armed gang opened fire in a poor neighborhood in South Africa’s biggest city, killing 12 people and wounding at least nine, before fleeing in a minibus, police said Wednesday. The ...

Johannesburg South and Ekhuruleni were among the key areas targeted in a crime-fighting operation that saw the arrest of 793 ...

The shooting took place at Jumpers Informal Settlement in Cleveland at around 11.10pm on Tuesday. Catch up on what happened ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers have been deployed on the streets of South Africa's biggest city nearly a month after the president announced the army ...

Police in South Africa have launched a manhunt after 12 people were killed in a mass shooting at an informal settlement in Johannesburg. At least 10 suspects, heavily armed with rifles, entered the ...

GANGS have been hunting illegal migrants in South Africa and have issued a deadline for nearly 10 million people to leave. A growing anti-migrant movement has called for all undocumented ...

JOHANNESBURG — It's an unusual move for the African continent's leading democracy: South Africa's president announced that he will deploy the army to high-crime areas to fight the scourge of gang ...