Mary de Haas, the vigilant KZN violence monitor, is raising eyebrows in Parliament as she calls out the absurdity of politicians receiving VIP treatment while ordinary citizens are left to fend for themselves.

A photograph of a woman dressed in orange struggling with another woman in police uniform has been widely shared in South Africa along with claims that it

Over the past 72 hours, gang violence has claimed 30 lives in the Western Cape, culminating in a mass shooting at the Nyanga taxi rank that left two dead and several injured.

Western Cape MEC for Mobility Isaac Sileku has called on law enforcement authorities to move swiftly to bring to justice the people responsible for the fatal shooting at the Nyanga Terminus Taxi Rank on Wednesday morning.

Cities are often seen as hotspots of violence, with the assumption that larger cities are inherently more violent than smaller ones. This "universal law" of urban scaling has long shaped scientific thinking.