Cape Town is widely known for its natural beauty and thriving tourism industry, yet many communities on the outskirts of the city face a very different reality. Areas on the Cape Flats such as ...

Alleged Americans gang leader Igsaan 'Sanie American' Davids has died from injuries sustained in a Kensington shooting.

Police, community watch members, and residents patrol the Mitchells Plain neighborhood of Cape Town, South Africa. Christian Putsch By Patricia Huon, Contributor Cape Town, South Africa On a recent ...

Members of different communities in Cape Town, Western Cape, who are victims of gang violence, appealed to the warring gangs Gang violence claimed scores of lives in 2025 after a high number of ...

'Oubaas', as he was sometimes referred to, was known to police as a senior gang figure, but veteran journalist Marianne ...

A 33-year-old alleged gang leader was arrested in Ravensmead during Operation Lockdown III after police seized multiple illegal firearms, ammunition.

Cape Town has a long and sad history of gangs and drug abuse. This history spans decades and involves a dangerous and destructive relationship with patterns of substance abuse. These gangs make the ...

Fears are mounting of renewed gang violence on the Cape Flats after an alleged Fancy Boys gang leader, known as ‘Pang’, was ...

Two notorious Mechanics Gang members face justice with six life sentences for a brutal bus stop shooting that claimed three lives. In a shocking display of gang-related violence, five individuals, ...

A shocking gang-related shooting in Delft has claimed the lives of four individuals, including a young boy on Wednesday evening: ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African soldiers were deployed to gang-ridden Cape Town suburbs on Thursday to help quell escalating violence that has killed hundreds this year and that officials have ...