Ekurhuleni killings: What we all know after our bodies of 12 ladies present in South Africa

Case 12

Boitumelo Gift Mashita was shot and killed on Monday in Tembisa Ekurhuleni. The 23-year-old lady was on her approach to work when she was gunned down and her belongings had been taken.

Police say her estranged husband, who they suspected of being liable for her homicide, was later discovered lifeless inside his car in Midrand.

Police haven’t discovered any hyperlink between this case and the invention of the opposite our bodies.

While a lot of the our bodies had been present in the identical space, police confirmed the invention of one other physique about 39 miles (63 km) away from Ekurhuleni on 20 September.

The physique of a younger lady, believed to be in her 20s, was discovered wrapped in a quilt in a dam in Soweto, south-west of Johannesburg.

It’s unclear if her homicide is linked to these in Ekurhuleni.

President Cyril Ramaphosa mentioned the killing of those ladies and others was a “stain on our nationwide conscience”.

South Africa has one of many highest murder charges, with 5,427 individuals murdered between April and June this yr alone.

South African police statistics don’t differentiate victims by gender however the South African Human Rights Commission mentioned final week that 569 ladies had been killed between April and June this yr. This works out as a mean of six ladies killed every day.

Police have arrange a activity staff to analyze these murders and have supplied a reward of 400,000 rand ($24,000; £18,000) for info that would result in arrests.