It was the first major deployment since President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his annual speech to the nation last month that he ...

Troops have been deployed on the streets of South Africa's biggest city after the president announced plans last month to use ...

It's an unusual move for the African continent's leading democracy: South Africa's president announced that he will deploy ...

First troops touch down nearly a month after President Ramaphosa said organised crime threatened country’s democracy.

Supporters see urgent action, while critics warn that soldiers on the streets risk escalating conflict.On March 10 in South Africa's Western Cape province, a gray vehicle pulled up outside a house in ...

President Ramaphosa orders troop deployment across five South African provinces to fight illegal mining and gang violence amid rising violent crime.

Western Cape anti-gang unit detectives are looking for three men who shot and killed three men and wounded four others at Kalksteenfontein in Bishop Lavis on Thursday evening.

Rocklands, Mitchells Plain, was rocked by a triple murder on Viscount Street, four months after three people were killed in ...

It’s been nearly a month since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to gang-affected areas in the Western Cape. But residents are ...

The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg handed two members of the notorious Fastgun gang in Westbury life sentences on Tuesday ...

Footage of SANDF soldiers and vehicles entering Eldorado Park for a national operation against gangsterism and violent crime circulates widely online.

Soldiers have been deployed to the streets of Johannesburg in the first major troop deployment since South African President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed to crack down on violent crime and illegal mining.