Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers have been deployed on the streets of South Africa's biggest city nearly a month after the president announced the army ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It's an unusual move for the African continent's leading democracy: South Africa's president announced that he will deploy the army to high-crime areas to fight the scourge of gang ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An armed gang opened fire in a poor neighborhood in South Africa’s biggest city, killing 12 people and wounding at least nine, before fleeing in a minibus, police said Wednesday.

Thousands have fled amid months of anti-immigration protests as campaigners demand undocumented people leave the country ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It’s an unusual move for the African continent’s leading democracy: South Africa’s president announced that he will deploy the army to high-crime areas to fight the scourge of gang ...