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, ...

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 ...

Thamsanqa D Malinga is director at Mkabayi Management Consultants; a writer, columnist, and political commentator, as well as author of Blame Me on Apartheid and A Dream Betrayed. Growing up in the ...

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 ...

A social justice activist is on a nine-day hunger strike to draw attention to the "animalistic" acts of vigilante necklacing in black townships. Nkwame Cedile, 47, from Khayelitsha started his "eight ...

The bogus sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial service was among a group of people who burned two men to death for stealing a television in 2003, say a cousin and three friends.

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 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 ...

The gruesome discovery was made on Monday around around 09:30. Photo: Supplied Police have yet to identify the body of a middle-aged man who was killed in an apparent “necklacing” at New Eersterust, ...

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