Ninth woman’s body found as South Africa probes series of killings

All female victims in their 20s and 30s were killed on the outskirts of Johannesburg in the past two months.

x whatsapp-stroke copylink google Add Al Jazeera on Google info Members of the South African Police Service and state pathologists inspect the body of one of the women found dumped on the side of a road on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa [Kim Ludbrook/EPA] By AFP and Reuters Published On 17 Sep 2026 17 Sep 2026 Police have found the body of another murdered woman on the outskirts of South Africa’s commercial capital – after the discovery of eight female corpses in the same area of Johannesburg in the past two months.

Police said they found the body of a ninth woman and imposed a lockdown in Kempton Park in the Ekurhuleni municipality on Thursday. Three of the partially naked bodies were found in the area this week.