{"id":61073,"date":"2026-09-19T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/south-africa-vigils-held-for-murdered-women\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:29:50","slug":"south-africa-vigils-held-for-murdered-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/south-africa-vigils-held-for-murdered-women\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Vigils held for murdered women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Runners gathered in South Africa to pay tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cxyvzggzd5jgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Elizabeth Moselakgomo after her body was found<\/a> east of Johannesburg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqx2zgk8k8xvo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">of nine women found in the Kempton Park area<\/a>, since July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The jogger, known as &#8220;Tsontso&#8221;, went missing during a routine run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Runners organised an event in city of Centurion to honour her and defend women&#8217;s right to run freely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is for her &#8211; we just want to live and go running and come back home without having to think that it may be one of us&#8221;, said Nonhle Mpohlo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Cape Town, people gathered in a vigil to honour the victims and called on the government to act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The police have since set up a task team to investigate the murders and have urged women in the Kempton Park area to avoid walking or running alone &#8220;particularly in isolated areas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjkg71e67k17o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">More about the murders sparking fear in South Africa.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cm4gjxq1dx2eo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runners gathered in South Africa to pay tribute to Elizabeth Moselakgomo after her body was found east of Johannesburg. She is one of nine women found in the Kempton Park area, since July. The jogger, known as &#8220;Tsontso&#8221;, went missing during a routine run. Runners organised an event in city of Centurion to honour her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61075,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61073\/revisions\/61075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}