GAUTENG. – The names of seven of the nine women whose bodies have been found over the past two months in Ekurhuleni and surrounding areas are now known, while police continue investigations into the deaths.
Brig. Athlenda Mathe, national police spokesperson, says the bodies of Busisiwe Mahlangu were found on 15 July, Itumeleng Kekana on 3 August, Nomfesane Mjobo on 26 August, Gracious Nkomo on 10 September and Elizabeth Moselakgomo on 12 September in Kempton Park. The body of Dineo Motapane was found on 15 September in Kwa-Thema and the body of Jabulile Ntimba on 17 September in Dawn Park.
The identity of a woman whose body was found on 7 September in the Clayville river near Olifantsfontein remains unknown. The name of another woman, found on 14 September in Olifantsfontein, is being withheld until her family has been informed.
A multidisciplinary team of experts has been mobilised to assist with the investigations. A breakthrough has meanwhile been made in the Dawn Park murder case, with three suspects arrested over the weekend.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
