On Sunday morning, the residents of Khutsong, a township west of Johannesburg, decided they were fed up with crime and gangsters. A crowd gathered in a local stadium near the township to decide what ...

Earlier this year, South African townships were rocked by incidents of necklacing - mob-justice punishment in which tyres are forced over victims' shoulders and set alight. Is this notorious form of ...

It was one crime too many for New Brighton. Two men broke into an elderly woman's home, stole her television, and then stabbed her tenant to death when he tried to protect her. So the next morning, ...

The horrific spectre of apartheid-era necklacing played out during a live radio interview with EFF leader Julius Malema on Friday. The party boss promised a caller to Power FM that he would have "put ...

VIGILANTE RESIDENTS in Cape Town’s largest township have turned to the apartheid-era practice of “necklacing” to tackle criminals in their community. The locals say they have adopted the brutal ...

It was one crime too many for New Brighton. Two men broke into an elderly woman's home, stole her television, and then stabbed her tenant to death when he tried to protect her. So the next morning, ...

After the necklacing incident in Munsieville on Sunday night 4 January, an investigating officer could not contain his emotions while giving a brief testimony in court the following week. Read the ...

Two unidentified men were the latest victims of mob justice when they were killed in Barberton yesterday, August 25. The local police received information about a mob justice incident in Barberton Ext ...

Vigilante necklacing made headlines in June last year when four suspected thieves were subjected to the tyre torture in Port Elizabeth. Trauma manager at the CSVR, Nomfundo Mogapi, said the brutality ...

Earlier this year, South African townships were rocked by incidents of necklacing - mob-justice punishment in which tyres are forced over victims' shoulders and set alight. Is this notorious form of ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from CM iPad section World. Followed categories will be added to My News. It was one crime too many for New Brighton. Two men broke into an elderly woman's home, stole ...