Seven Women's Deaths Near OR Tambo Airport Sharpen Femicide Focus

Seven women have been found dead around OR Tambo airport since 15 July, five in the week to 16 September. Police list sites in Kempton Park, Olifantsfontein and south-east Johannesburg. The cases are intensifying focus on South Africa's femicide crisis — killing of women because of gender — after President Ramaphosa called gender-based violence a national crisis in November 2025.