Six suspected gang members, including a witch doctor, have been killed by an enraged mob shortly after residents of a Johannesburg township met to discuss what to about criminals living in the area.
Some of the victims were burned alive and two were stoned to death.
Police said about 400 men gathered in an open field in Khutsong on Sunday to air their grievances and then resolved to split up into roving groups.
The first victim was a 61-year-old witch doctor, known locally as a sangoma, who was killed when the mob set fire to him and his home.
The mob accused him of working with gangs and hiding criminals, local reports said.
He was reportedly killed in front of family members.
Two men, aged between 20 and 24, who police said belonged to the Casanova Gang were then set upon and also burnt to death.
The mob then moved on to nearby Carletonville where they found two other alleged gang members in the street. The men were stoned to death.
Police fire at protesters in another township, Bekkersdal, last month Twitter users have posted graphic photographs of the victims on the social media site.
Several people were also injured during the rampage.
Khutsong residents also threw stones at police vehicles.
"Police have increased visibility in the area. Currently the area is volatile," a police statement said.
No arrests have been made, but Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said "the perpetrators of these crimes will feel the full force of the law".
"Mob justice is unjustifiable," he said.
Vigilante acts are common in South Africa's black townships - where poor residents often complain about gangs, violent crime and shoddy policing - but it is rare for so many to be killed at once.
The killings in Khutsong follow other flare-ups in the area known as the West Rand, a sprawling group of communities west of Johannesburg that has fallen on hard times as gold mines have closed.
Another township in the area, Bekkersdal, has been the scene of periodic riots the past few weeks by residents angry at the failure of the local government to provide services such as garbage collection.
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