CAPE TOWN, South Africa-Siphesihle Mbango was just six years old when her friend, Asenathi, begged her to go with her to the toilet then ran outside alone-and was never seen again.Now 12, Mbango ...

Temporary toilets stand in front of shacks in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, South Africa, October 14, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo By Paola Totaro CAPE TOWN (Thomson Reuters ...

The death rate of Cape Town is enormously high for a place that enjoys such a splendid natural position; and it is a notorious fact that the majority of deaths occur in the slums, and that the ...

KHAYELITSHA, South Africa (Reuters) – Beaten and set alight, Ncedile Gigi’s unrecognizable remains have not been buried since March, when a mob fed up with poor policing took the law in… ...

For the simple act of washing their hands, slum dwellers in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township have to go to a communal tap, fill up a bucket of water and haul it back to their shack. Coronavirus is ...

The City of Cape Town is being accused of turning suburbs into slums by ignoring its own by-laws, resulting in a boom of illegal building developments for nefarious activities. Monday, June 30 ...