In the late hours of a Tuesday night in KwaMakhutha township near Durban, three armed men entered a gathering of fourteen people and opened fire, leaving eleven dead — among them a pregnant woman. The attack is the latest expression of a deepening crisis in South Africa, where more than sixty people are murdered every day and criminal networks have grown powerful enough to challenge the state itself. Investigators suspect rival criminal groups, though no arrests have been made, and the nation finds itself once again confronting the question of whether its institutions can contain the violence
Eleven killed in mass shooting at South African house party
Eleven people killed including a pregnant woman; four others hospitalized with at least one fatality from injuries sustained in the attack.