GAUTENG. – Two of the eight women whose bodies were found in the Kempton Park area have been positively identified so far. They are 38-year-old Elizabeth "Tsontso" Moselakgomo and Itumeleng Kekana.
Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, national police spokesperson, says Moselakgomo was reported missing on ten September after she went for a run and did not return to her home and her eight-year-old daughter. Moselakgomo's daughter contacted family members when her mother did not return later that evening, after which her disappearance was reported to police. Police searched for Moselakgomo and made enquiries at hospitals and mortuaries. Her body was positively identified on fourteen September at the Germiston mortuary by her family.
Kekana was reported missing on seventeen July. Her body was found naked along Great North Road in Pomona, Kempton Park, on three August. She has since been positively identified.
Police are investigating the deaths. One suspect has already been taken into custody in connection with the discovery of the first body in July and remains in detention. The acting national police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Puleng Dimpane, has tasked a multidisciplinary team to intensify the investigations and examine possible links between the cases.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
