Julius Maake News Today

The violent crime taking place in Diesploot is starting to spill into school grounds with pupils getting involved in clashes and stabbings outside school.

About 600 shacks in Diepsloot Extension 1 have been without working electricity connections for years say community members.

Despite government commitments aimed at ending the crime and intolerance, Diepsloot community members are far from happy.

Community leaders in South Africa’s violence-prone Diepsloot township say foreigners were not involved in the shooting to death of two people in the area on Friday, almost two weeks after Zimbabwean domestic worker Elvis Nyathi’s was killed by a vigilante group. In a statement, councilors...