Ninth woman's body found in South Africa as serial killer fears mount

In the Dawn Park neighborhood near Johannesburg, the discovery of a ninth woman's body has compelled South Africa to confront what many already know in their bones: that violence against women is not a series of isolated tragedies but a condition of life. Police are investigating whether a single killer is responsible, but the deeper question the country must answer is whether the crisis is the killer, or the culture that enables killing. Nine women are gone, and a nation is being asked, again, to look directly at what it has long struggled to see.