A ninth woman has been found dead amid a wave of killings in South Africa’s Ekurhuleni region, east of Johannesburg.
South Africa gender commissioner: women ‘hunted’ amid femicide crisis A ninth woman has been found dead amid a wave of killings in South Africa’s Ekurhuleni region, east of Johannesburg. Gender equality commissioner Princess Eurika Mogane told Al Jazeera the violence feels like a ‘war’, with women ‘being hunted’.
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