TOPSHOT - (FILES) Khumo Maake, an activist with Check Mate, an organization calling for the mandatory ID checks on dating apps, performs as activist carry placards during a demonstration calling for gender-based violence and femicide to be declared a national disaster, in Pretoria on April 11, 2025. South African police are racing to crack the killings of at least seven women whose bodies have been found east of Johannesburg in two months, the latest on September 15, 2026. The country has one of the world's highest homicide rates but the discovery of the women's bodies, partially naked and battered, has sparked fresh anxiety and raised fears that a serial killer or group of killers may be operating in the area. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP via Getty Images)