In the shadow of one of Africa's busiest airports, eight women have been found dead since mid-July — their bodies scattered across the industrial margins of Johannesburg, their lives reduced to coordinates on a police map. The most recent, Elizabeth Moselakgomo, had taken every precaution a woman in South Africa learns to take; she joined a running club so she would not run alone, and still she did not come home to her eight-year-old daughter. Her death has become a mirror held up to a nation that kills women at nearly six times the global rate, forcing a reckoning with the distance between a
Eight women's bodies near Johannesburg airport ignite femicide crisis in South Africa
Eight women murdered, including Elizabeth Moselakgomo (38), leaving an eight-year-old daughter orphaned; victims found half-naked with visible bruising or decomposed.