Is the media’s reporting on events such as the Diepsloot deaths with a rush to classify the potential culprits as foreigners feeding xenophobia?
Hundreds of women marched on the makeshift Diepsloot police station, babies and children strapped to their backs.
Police are on the hunt for a man believed to be behind the killings in Diepsloot.
Police have taken in three people and are searching for a fourth for questioning over the kidnapping and murder of two toddlers in Diepsloot.
The killing of two toddlers in Diepsloot has seen residents protest in anger but it is mothers who are affected the most, writes Sarah Evans.
The killing of two toddlers in Diepsloot in the north of Johannesburg is shocking and heart-breaking, says the ANC.
Hundreds of women have begun an angry march towards a makeshift police station in Diepsloot after two girls were discovered dead in a toilet cubicle.
Widespread looting in the township of Diepsloot is alleged to have been xenophobic, but a closer look shows otherwise.
Both local and international residents of Diepsloot have denied claims that xenophobia is behind two days of violence in the township.
As Diepsloot remains tense following a night of looting, experts have accused the government and police of fudging the issue of xenophobia.
Forty-seven people have been arrested after a shop owner shot two men dead in Diepsloot on Sunday.
As water trouble continues in Diepsloot, it appears residents are starting to suffer the health consequences — but not according to official figures.
The water crisis in Diepsloot has intensified as water tanks stand empty and no word on when the area would have water again.
Some Diepsloot residents have drunk their water and prayed while others walked kilometres to find a safer supply after theirs was contaminated.
Rudzani(17) photographs service delivery problems in Diepsloot to raise awareness about the issue and she started the Diepsloot Change Association.
A total of 36 new schools will be opened in Gauteng for the 2012 academic year, according to Gauteng education minister, Barbara Creecy.
<i>Diepsloot</i> could open much-needed discussion on whites writing about the black condition.
Our readers share their thoughts on Anton Harber’s book <i>Diepsloot</i>, Albertina Sisulu and more.
Apartheid-style housing in a post-apartheid township: <strong>Anton Harber</strong> talks to the <em>M&G</em> about his book, <i>Diepsloot</i>.
In Johannesburg’s Diepsloot the backyards of RDP houses are a maze of shacks that far outnumber the formal structures in whose shadow they stand.
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/ 23 October 2009
What does one do when the sun goes down and there’s no light switch indoors? Karabo Keepile visits a family in a shack in Diepsloot to find out
Diepsloot residents woke up on Monday to the overwhelming stench of faeces emanating from mobile toilets that had been pushed over.
The Police’s handling of protests in Diepsloot has raised questions about the police’s ability to manage the crowds expected at the World Cup.
A protest in Diepsloot on Sunday ended in the stoning of passing traffic, the destruction of two police cars and five arrests, Gauteng police said.
A fire gutted about 23 shacks and left more than 100 people homeless in Diepsloot on Saturday, Johannesburg Emergency Management Services said.
Television is a rare luxury for township residents in townships, but now the Township TV project has brought entertainment into their lives.
Gauteng police were investigating a case of murder on Monday after a man was set alight in Diepsloot. Police said the man was attacked on Sunday.
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/ 10 December 2007
Just beyond Johannesburg’s affluent suburbs, with their manicured lawns and swimming pools, the shack dwellers of Diepsloot live amid stinking garbage, raw sewage and rats. Disillusioned with politics, many squatters have little faith that their once-champion, the ruling African National Congress (ANC), will find them better homes and opportunities.
Thabiso Mahowa is one of about seven million South Africans who live in squatter camps, deprived of basic services like clean water, proper sewerage, roads, and a house he can proudly call home. Now the country’s major economic centre, Johannesburg, is bracing itself for one of its biggest challenges since the demise of apartheid — to do away with the squatter camps, known as informal settlements, within three years.