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, ...

Johannesburg - Confusion reigned over the arrest of two men accused of necklacing twins in Etwatwa, Ekurhuleni, when the suspects failed to appear in court on Tuesday. Police spokesperson ...

Growing up in the late 1980s, I recall the political differences between the United Democratic Front (UDF), the ANC-aligned civil movement; and Inkatha Yenkululeko YeSizwe, the civil movement led by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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