The killings made international headlines and were shocking even in South Africa, a society with one of the highest murder rates in the world
At least 50 more police and other law enforcement officers were sent to the area in response to the spate of violence
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In the early hours of Wednesday morning the community of Bonteheuwel will shut down
Prime Minister Theresa May was safe after the incident, a spokesperson for her office said.
While Europe and North America may be afraid to go outside, we fear the crime that comes to us.
A gunman opened fire and killed nine people at a historic black church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, in what police say is a "hate crime".
A gunman killed three students in Chapel Hill before turning himself in, but the police are keeping mum about his motive.
After being shot and missing a performance, hip-hop musician Khuli Chana’s lawyers have submitted a letter to the police demanding compensation.
The FBI says it would be premature to comment on a motivation at this time and joint investigators have neither ruled out terrorism, nor ruled it in.
The FBI has identified the dead gunman who killed 12 people at a Washington navy yard and eliminated the possibility of a second suspect.
A gunman has killed at least four people in a shooting rampage in the US state of California before police shot him dead in a college library.
Karl Durkheimer’s gun shop enjoyed record sales of semi-automatic firearms — "modern sporting rifles", as he calls them — and handguns last weekend.
"We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years," Obama said during a somber televised appearance in the White House briefing room.
For as long as South Africans believe they can get away with murder, they will continue to kill. What do we say now that black people are in charge?
Baffled police were trying on Thursday to work out why a quiet taxi driver gunned down 12 people around England’s serene Lake District.
Armed men have shot dead a Sudanese aid worker in Darfur in the latest of a string of attacks on international organisations in Sudan’s violent west.
North West Premier Edna Molewa and her husband were shot at while returning from a funeral in Rustenburg, according to a media report on Tuesday.
Shooting broke out inside Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana’s office in Antananarivo moments after the army entered the compound on Monday.
Eleven people, including the suspected gunman and his mother, were killed in a shooting spree and car chase in southern Alabama on Tuesday.
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/ 23 January 2009
The chairperson of the ANCYL in KwaZulu-Natal’s Umgababa area, outside Durban, died on Friday morning after being shot, police said.
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/ 23 January 2009
Condolences continued to pour in on Friday for KZN inkosi Mbongeleni Zondi, who was shot dead in Durban’s Umlazi township on Thursday.
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/ 22 December 2008
A total of 1 722 people were assaulted and 111 people sustained gunshot wounds in KZN over the first 18 days of December.
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/ 10 December 2008
Johan Nel’s legal team will be at Mmabatho High Court on Friday to hear whether he is granted leave to appeal his sentence, police said on Wednesday.
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/ 30 October 2008
There has been an outpouring of soul-searching in the media this week following the accidental shooting of four-year-old Richard Belang.
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/ 30 October 2008
Johannesburg High Court Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng lashed out at the country’s legal system on Thursday, saying it has lost its integrity.
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/ 28 October 2008
The Johannesburg High Court was expected to hand down judgement against ten of the 13 Jeppestown massacre accused on Tuesday.
One of the 12 accused in the Jeppestown robbery shoot-out trial has admitted to his involvement in the crime, the SABC reported on Monday.
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/ 22 September 2008
Three men were shot when an African National Congress meeting in Lusikisiki turned violent, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.
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/ 16 September 2008
Two men believed to have been involved in the slaying of a senior police officer died in a shoot-out with police near Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday.
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/ 3 September 2008
Police are offering a R200 000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the men who gunned down a senior police officer in KwaMashu.
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/ 1 September 2008
An Alberton couple accidentally shot by the police while returning home from a holiday are doing well in hospital, Gauteng police said on Monday.