KHAYELITSHA, South Africa (Reuters) - Beaten and set alight, Ncedile Gigi's unrecognisable remains have not been buried since March, when a mob fed up with poor policing took the law into their own ...

In a chilling act of church vigilantism, South African pastor Apostle Solomon Mhlanga unleashed machete fury on suspected ...

In a recent statement, South Africa’s minister of correctional services said more than 18,000 parolees had reoffended in the past three years. They included 209 committing murder and 330 rape during ...

An audacious effort joined two disparate communities, who say they all suffer from the staggering violence and crime affecting the country.

Hampering prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes isn’t just a legal failure, it is a betrayal of the moral foundation of post-apartheid South Africa. Justice delayed, as the old adage goes, is justice ...

Gugulethu in Cape Town has been rocked by a wave of recent shootings in which several feared gangsters were assassinated. Now ...

A suspected vigilante attack in the community of Nekkies in Knysna has left a 28-year-old man dead and four people in police custody, sparking fresh concerns over rising mob justice in parts of the ...

President Donald Trump signed yet another executive order on Friday, Feb. 7, but the latest had little to do with the United States. Instead, it addressed South Africa, freezing aid to the country ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — This week, President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump appointee and billionaire businessman Elon Musk all attacked South Africa in a flurry of social media ...