The army has been deployed to five of South Africa's nine provinces for a year-long operation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers will be deployed to the Western Cape and Gauteng, provinces hard hit by gang violence and illegal mining respectively ...

In a show of force in Cape Town, around 500 military and police personnel paraded ahead of a year-long deployment targeting ...

Jack Christofides, the new leader of the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force (GSF), arrived in Haiti on Wednesday with a Chadian ...

South Africa's Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has said that the security forces are not yet able to defeat deadly criminal gangs, in a stark admission that underscores the scale of the country's crime ...

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 ...

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 - Education officials in a province in South Africa closed 16 schools, affecting 12,000 students, Thursday in an impoverished area near Cape Town because of a spike in gang violence that ...

As troops join the anti-crime effort in major cities, Cape Flats community leaders describe how more and more children are ...

South African soldiers moved into gang-ridden Cape Town townships on Wednesday, as two people were killed in fresh violence, ...

Soldiers will be deployed to the Western Cape and Gauteng, provinces hard hit by gang violence and illegal mining respectively South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he will deploy the army to ...