Diepsloot Extension News Today

Gathered at a church in Diepsloot Extension 9, residents sang hymns and shared stories and memories of Makoti John Makola, while also letting the government officials at the service know they were unhappy.

Gauteng police boss Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela said the deployment of 13 trained drone pilots would bring positive results.

Many shop owners were forced to close their businesses when Diepsloot residents embarked on a violent protest on Tuesday morning.

Just fixing the streetlights would help says community police forum

In an attempt to safeguard themselves, residents in an informal section of Diepsloot erected enormous zinc sheet gates between the main road and their shacks in 2021.

Gauteng police have launched manhunt for gunmen who killed two people in Diepsloot on Friday.

Three people were shot and killed in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, on Friday evening.

DA leader John Steenhuisen believes it is the ANC-led government’s inability to run a competent home affairs department that has led to the continued xenophobic violence in the country.

Meanwhile police conduct searches for undocumented immigrants

Immigrants in Diepsloot, Johannesburg, say they live in fear after a Zimbabwean man, Elvis Nyathi, was killed, allegedly by a mob, in Extension 1.