Shootings

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?