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Police are investigating the killings in a country with one of the highest femicide rates in the world.
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Largest city in South Africa
Johannesburg, colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "the City of Gold", is the capital city of the province of Gauteng and the largest city in South Africa. In 2022, the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality had a population of 4,803,262, and the wider metropolitan area a population of 15,099,422, making it one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. It is also the seat of the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court. Situated on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand, the city has long been at the epicentre of the international mineral and gold trade.
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The Women for Change decried what it described as lack of urgent action from the government.
The deaths have sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in the country.
The woman's body was reportedly found half-naked and appeared to have been strangled.