The 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index states South Africa's legacy of state capture and systemic graft has left many state ...

Gang-related crime in South Africa is widespread, but is under-reported outside hotspots such as the Cape Flats in Cape Town or Westbury in Johannesburg. In these areas gangs are deeply rooted and ...

The two members of the Barrio 18 street gang waited until 15-year-old Maribel’s* parents were out and then called at the family home in the outskirts of San Salvador. When she answered the door, they ...

A suspected gang-related shooting in Goodwood has resulted in one death and three injuries, as police investigate the ...

Foreign shopkeepers in Cape Town live in fear of extortion gangs. On the weekend, three Somali shop owners were shot in three separate incidents in Harare, Khayelitsha. One died, and the two others ...

Former soccer player Hidaa Ahmad Ghaddar is fighting gang violence in her hometown, Kano, Nigeria, by getting boys off the streets and onto the pitch.

KwaZulu-Natal police are looking for two gunmen who shot dead two people — including a teenager — and injured seven others ...

Dr Ashwill Ramon Phillips does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...