Anyone can end up in this devious gunman's firing line. This serial killer is gangsterism and in Cape Town, it is robbing society's most innocent – babies and children – of their right to safety and ...

It's a network, culture and lucrative business. And to keep profits high, Cape Town's gangs run highly organised, militant operations where only the smartest and most strategic is given a seat at the ...

Police estimated in 2013 that there are 100,000 gang members in the city of 4 million people. Just 12 miles from Cape Town’s beaches, five-star hotels, and internationally lauded restaurants ...

The gang, that is, in one of Cape Town’s most dangerous townships (known outside of South Africa as “shantytowns”). And with them, the Hard Livings and Clever Kidz. Called by God into a life ...

For more than 50 years, street gangs have been a defining part of life in the so-called “coloured” communities of the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa. “Coloured” was one of four ...

Activists have warned that the recent elimination of gang leaders in Cape Town has led to a dangerous power vacuum, resulting in increased violence. This follows murders in Delft and Westridge ...

There are as many as 130 gangs in Cape Town, South Africa. They have the tightest grip on those parts of the city where poverty and insecurity have pushed an estimated 100,000 young men and women ...

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