Hate crimes
Police boss vows to address hate crimes against LGBTQIA+ community
This comes amid increasing levels of murder and rape against members of the gay community in South Africa with no way to classify these crimes.
Political parties must not tap dance around the issue of violence against foreign nationals, but must rather call things as they are, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
In recent months, El Paso has also become one of the busiest entry points for undocumented migrants, especially from Central America, seeking asylum in the United States.
The rising environment of hate isn't your imagination, the number of incidents motivated by it rose in 2017 in the United States.
Twenty-three-year-old Noxolo Xakeka was murdered allegedly because she was a lesbian.
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on Wednesday introduced the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill.
The Home Office said there were 80,393 offences in 2016/17, a rise of 29% from the year before and the largest percentage increase since the figures were first collated five years ago.
CNN legal analyst Danny Cevallos explains why the justice system labels certain crimes as hate crimes.
The growing incidents of racism on social media suggest that the country needs to ensure that racism has consequences.
Two sisters and two men streamed themselves assaulting a man with special needs on Facebook Live on Tuesday.
Noluvo Swelindawo's body was found near the N2 Highway on Sunday.
Justice Minister Michael Masutha says this law is just one component of efforts to stamp out racism in SA.
The attack followed a number of similar beatings of Sikhs in the US over a period of more than a decade.
Christo Oncke was found guilty of murdering Dawid Olyne, who was gay, in Ceres in March 2014.
At least 53 others were wounded in what is now known as the deadliest mass shooting in US history.
Christo Oncke heard his fate in the Ceres Circuit Court on Thursday.
Last month, community members in Evaton North alerted police to a mutilated body near a local school.
The mutilated body of woman was found dead in what gay rights groups say was a hate crime.
The fire comes just days after a man shot dead three young Muslims in North Carolina.