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Eleven women found dead near Johannesburg in suspected serial killings

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Ran
45h
Updated
3d ago
Closed
Outlets
8
Regions
4
Countries
8
Languages
5

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The Independent United Kingdom · English 30 Sept, 06:33 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Français (1) · Nederlands (1) · Српски (1) · فارسی (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 46 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Independent, 30 Sept, 06:33 UTC.
  2. Second country: China, with CGTN.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with CGTN.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 30 Sept, 08:30 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

46 of 46 hours

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The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%13%62%12%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 5 countries · 62%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

  1. The Independent 30 Sept, 06:33 UTC
  2. CGTN +1h 57m
  3. NU.nl +2h 3m
  4. Cyprus Mail +2h 41m
  5. Mail & Guardian +32h 53m

Last to join

  1. Khabar Online 2 Oct, 04:22 UTC
  2. Le Monde 2 Oct, 04:00 UTC
  3. N1 1 Oct, 16:23 UTC
  4. Mail & Guardian 1 Oct, 15:27 UTC
  5. Cyprus Mail 30 Sept, 09:14 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Eleven women killed near Johannesburg in two months, 27 to 29 Sept 2026, 21 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 8 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 1 state-owned, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Asia-Pacific 1: China. Europe 5: Cyprus, France, Netherlands, Serbia, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Iran. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Persian, French, Dutch, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article The Independent, 30 Sept 2026, 06:33 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 06:40 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 04:22 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Africa, South Africa. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged not hard news, unsure. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues Eleven women killed near Johannesburg in two months. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
1 Oct 2026 288 4.19 6 6 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 06:40 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 04:22 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Mail & Guardian South Africa 1 Oct, 15:27 UTC
    Murder first or femicide? Ekurhuleni killings open debate over how cases should be understood

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • CGTN China 30 Sept, 08:30 UTC
    Specialised team investigates 11 Ekurhuleni murders in South Africa

Europe 5 outlets

  • Le Monde France 2 Oct, 04:00 UTC
    A Johannesburg, la découverte de onze corps révèle l’ampleur des violences à l’égard des femmes
  • N1 Serbia 1 Oct, 16:23 UTC
    Strah potresa Južnu Afriku: Za dva meseca devet ubijenih žena
  • Cyprus Mail Cyprus 30 Sept, 09:14 UTC
    Violence against women in South Africa is national shame, President Ramaphosa says
  • NU.nl Netherlands 30 Sept, 08:37 UTC
    President Zuid-Afrika spreekt van 'nationale schande' na vondst elfde dode vrouw
  • The Independent United Kingdom 30 Sept, 06:33 UTC
    South Africa serial killer fears after another women found dead near Johannesburg

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Khabar Online Iran 2 Oct, 04:22 UTC
    معمای قتل زنان در اطراف ژوهانسبورگ؛ جسد یازدهمین قربانی هم پیدا شد/ پلیس هنوز به پاسخ نرسیده است
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