On Monday, constabulary said that 1 of them was Elizabeth Moselakgomo, a runner whose disappearance past week sparked a frantic and nationalist hunt for her.
President Ramaphosa said helium had directed that the cases beryllium prioritised: "Our instrumentality enforcement agencies are moving urgently to found the facts, support communities harmless and bring the perpetrator oregon perpetrators to justice."
South Africa experiences immoderate of the world's highest levels of gender-based unit (GBV), with the complaint astatine which women are killed 5 times higher than the planetary average, according to UN Women.
The discoveries of the bodies person sparked outrage and fearfulness crossed the country, with galore criticising the authorities for failing to adequately support women.
Moselakgomo was identified by her relatives connected Monday aft her assemblage was discovered connected Saturday. It was the 38-year-old's young girl who raised the alarm astir her disappearance aft she failed to instrumentality from her regular tally past Wednesday.
The assemblage of the archetypal pistillate was recovered successful mid-July, the 2nd successful precocious August - the others were discovered this month, 2 successful the past 2 days.
On Tuesday, constabulary said that the assemblage of pistillate recovered connected 7 September successful a municipality adjacent Kempton Park was besides being included - bringing the full fig of bodies being investigated to seven.
"After noticing that determination are bodies being picked up, we went backmost to our constabulary stations… and unluckily it came to airy that a assemblage of a pistillate successful her precocious 20s was observed successful a stream adjacent to a mall," Maj-Gen Fred Kekana, acting constabulary main for Gauteng province, said astatine a briefing.
Police person urged women successful the Kempton Park country - which is by South Africa's main planetary airdrome - to debar walking oregon moving unsocial "particularly successful isolated areas".
South Africa's Commission for Gender Equality urged residents of Kempton Park to enactment with the constabulary to find the perpetrators.
"These deaths are indicative that women successful South Africa proceed to look environments successful which their mean state of question tin go a substance of beingness and death," it said.
"Women should beryllium capable to run, locomotion to work, usage nationalist transport, instrumentality home, sojourn friends and enactment successful assemblage beingness without having to cipher whether an mean enactment could spot their lives astatine risk."
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