A sixth woman’s body has been found on the East Rand, this time on the side of a road in KwaThema, Springs.
The body was found on Tuesday morning.
Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi confirmed the discovery and said the area had been cordoned off.
“It is an active scene,” she said.
The discovery brought to six the number of women’s bodies found in and around Kempton Park since July.
All six were found lying in the open, on roadsides, in veld or behind buildings.
Most were partially clothed and bruised.
Police said on Monday that four of the women had been sexually assaulted.
The first, a 37-year-old woman, was found near the R21 on July 15, unclothed and restrained with cable ties. Her boyfriend was arrested and remains in custody.
A partially clothed 32-year-old woman was found on August 24.
Another woman’s body, unclothed and badly decomposed, was found on September 10.
Runner Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo was found on Saturday. Her eight-year-old daughter raised the alarm when her mother did not come home from a run after work.
The fifth woman, believed to be in her thirties, was found in a veld at Olifantsfontein on Monday morning by a man walking to work.
Deputy national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Tebello Mosikili briefed reporters at Kempton Park police station on Monday night, alongside acting Gauteng commissioner Major-General Fred Kekana and Ekurhuleni metro police chief Isaac Mapiyeye.
Mosikili said a 72-hour investigation was under way, with detectives, forensic investigators, the K9 unit, the tracing unit, metro police and crime intelligence chasing leads police hoped to close by the end of the week.
“Your days are numbered. This is not a threat, it’s a fact,” she said.
