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A 23-year-old woman was shot dead in an apparent robbery in Thembisa, Gauteng police said.
EKURHULENI WOMEN DEATHS

Ekurhuleni crime in focus after Thembisa woman killed in robbery

Police are investigating the murder and robbery of a 23-year-old woman in Thembisa on Monday morning.

  • The National News Team
2 min read
Police have discovered 11 women's bodies in Ekurhuleni since July. Here they discovered the body of the ninth woman - in Dawn Park, on the East Rand.
EKURHULENI WOMEN DEATHS

Ekurhuleni murders: suspects in three cases as 11th woman’s body is found

Police are still trying to establish whether the deaths are connected.

  • Vivian Warby
4 min read
Gauteng police commissioner Lieutenant General Tommy Mthombeni has not confirmed that the woman's death is related to any of the nine murders of women in Ekurhuleni since July.
EKURHULENI WOMEN DEATHS

Ekurhuleni cemetery murder: suspect arrested after woman found dead in Tembisa

Ntombifuthu Nxumalo was found dead at Mooifontein Cemetery, with investigators tracing a suspect to Limpopo.

  • Oluthando Keteyi
2 min read
A man holds up a poster during a picket against gender-based violence in Cape Town. A call has been made for South African men to actively dismantle toxic attitudes and confront gender-based violence within their communities.
EKURHULENI WOMEN DEATHS

'Men must lead' — New push to tackle harmful attitudes amid SA's GBV crisis

Men’s rights advocates and civil society leaders call for men to take greater responsibility in confronting gender-based violence.

  • Gcwalisile Khanyile
4 min read
Women gather at the scene where the body of the ninth woman was discovered in Dawn Park, Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, earlier this month.
HERITAGE DAY

What we inherit, and what we lose: Heritage Day, Ekurhuleni

Nine women killed. GBVF a national disaster. What do we inherit, and what should we make sure we do not pass on?

  • The National Team
10 min read
Sindisiwe Chikunga, Minister of Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities, has detailed the progress that has been made since the classification of gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster.
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GBVF classified as a national disaster: What has changed in South Africa?

A lieutenant-general faces rape and grooming allegations as arrests mount amid scrutiny of the GBVF response.

  • Gcwalisile Khanyile
7 min read
Tsakane Nester Msithini (R) and Fortunate Masilela (L), appeared before the Boksburg Magistrate's court in connection with the murder of Jabulile Ntimba, who's body was found in Villa Lisa, near Dawn Park.
EKURHULENI WOMEN DEATHS

Ekurhuleni murders: two cases, three arrests as probe of nine deaths widens

Three arrests. Two murder cases. Nine women dead – and a 10th body found in Soweto. But are any of the cases linked?

  • Vivian Warby
6 min read
Family and friends of Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo gathered on Sunday in Pankop, Mpumalanga, for her funeral.
EKURHULENI WOMEN DEATHS

Ekurhuleni murders: a criminologist asks what we’re missing

Three people are appearing in the Boksburg Magistrate court today in connection with one of the murders. But what are we still missing about the nine deaths?

  • Gcwalisile Khanyile
9 min read
Family and friends of Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo gathered on Sunday in Pankop, Mpumalanga for her funeral.
EKURHULENI WOMEN DEATHS

Elizabeth Moselakgomo remembered by her brother, daughter at emotional funeral

Tsontso’s family remembered the mother, sister and runner whose life was cut short as she was laid to rest in Pankop.

  • Sinenhlanhla Masilela
5 min read
"The Station Strangler" revisits the murders of young boys on Cape Town’s Cape Flats in the 1980s and 1990s, attributed to Norman Afzal Simons.
TRUE CRIME
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Ekurhuleni deaths echo South Africa’s dark true-crime history

The Ekurhuleni deaths come amid a long history of horrific crimes in South Africa.

  • Bernelee Vollmer
8 min read
The body of the ninth women believed to be in her early 20's was discovered by a jogger in Dawnpark, Ekurhuleni, on Thursday, 17 September 2026, following a gruesome discovery of 8 other women found in different parts of Ekurhuleni in the past two weeks.
EKURHULENI

Inside Ekurhuleni: Deaths, corruption cases and an election

Ekurhuleni is facing a reckoning on several fronts.

  • Vivian Warby
7 min read
A 30-minute silent protest against violence against women took place at the Castle of Good Hope and in front of the Cape Town central police Station on September 16. Dressed in black participants gathered in silence to remember women whose lives have been taken by violence and to stand in solidarity with women who continue to live in fear.
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Mourning in black: How 9 deaths united a nation in grief

South African women are taking to the streets, rejecting empty safety advice and refusing to suffer in silence.

  • Alyssia Birjalal
6 min read
Gracious Nkomo. Her family started a search for her when they couldn't get hold of her weeks ago. Social media spread her photos far and wide. She was yesterday identified by family as one of the nine women whose deaths police are investigating in Ekurhuleni.
EKURHULENI WOMEN DEATHS

Gracious Nkomo is fourth woman identified in Ekurhuleni murder investigation

Remembering four of the nine women whose names are now known — and the five who remain unidentified.

  • Vivian Warby
4 min read
An Orlando Pirates supporter at a Betway Premiership League match last night holds a poster referring to the recent deaths of women in Ekurhuleni. One of the women found dead was Itumeleng Kekana, an Orlando Pirates fan, her brother Themba said
FEMICIDE

Free but unsafe: The exhausting tax of being a woman in South Africa

Nine deaths in Ekurhuleni — and a fear millions of women live with every day.

  • Vuyile Madwantsi
9 min read