GAUTENG. – The woman whose body was found alongside a road in KwaThema, Springs, has been identified as 38-year-old Dineo Evelyn Motapane. She is the third of eight murder victims to be positively identified.
Brig. Athlenda Mathe, national police spokesperson, says Motapane's family positively identified her body at the Springs mortuary on Wednesday afternoon. According to the family, Motapane was last seen alive on Sunday. However, her family had not reported her missing by the time her body was found. Lt.Gen. Puleng Dimpane, the acting national police commissioner, extended her condolences to the Motapane family.
Mathe says investigations into the murders of the eight women in the area are being intensified. According to police, a multidisciplinary team of investigators and specialists is working on the cases to establish the circumstances of each murder, identify those responsible and bring them before court.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
