A lack of resources is hampering anti-gang operations, says Police Minister Firoz Cachalia South Africa's Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has said that the security forces are not yet able to defeat ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cape Town, South Africa – Two ominous letters are spray-painted on a wall at the entrance to Tafelsig, a township in Mitchells ...

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 ...

An ISIS-linked gang who brutally stabbed and battered a British couple to death then threw their bodies to crocodiles have been found guilty of their murder. World renowned botanists Rod Saunders, 74, ...

At least six stores across northwest Sydney have been targeted by thieves in recent weeks with three on Saturday which follows a trend started by gangs in Melbourne where the thieves race in and grab ...

South African soldiers guard detained suspects in the fight against illegal mining in Kagiso, Gauteng Province – Copyright AFP/File WIKUS DE WET Walking between the ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's president said Thursday that the country would send its troops into communities to help police fight the scourge of illegal mining and gang violence in its two provinces ...

JOHANNESBURG, March 13 (Reuters) - Gangs of South African men are raping lesbians in the belief it will "cure" the women's sexual orientation, an aid agency said on Friday. NGO ActionAid said in a ...

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 ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - International drug gangs from Africa and Iran are muscling in on Southeast Asia's booming methamphetamine business which has shown a staggering increase and is spreading through ...

JEDDAH — Twelve African men of varying ages and a 10-year-old boy have been nabbed by Jeddah Police in connection with a series of robberies, according to spokesman First Lt. Nawaf Al-Bouq. All home ...