{"id":24143,"date":"2026-01-15T03:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24143\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:16:21","slug":"five-suspects-arrested-after-two-women-found-murdered-in-orange-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24143\/","title":{"rendered":"Five suspects arrested after two women found murdered in Orange Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gauteng police have arrested five suspects for alleged the hijacking, kidnap and murder of two women, both aged 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victims were reported missing on New Year\u2019s Eve. They were last seen at the Pooe\u2019s sports ground in Evaton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A ransom demand was made to the mother of one of the victims, police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Their bodies were found in open veld on January 8 at a plot in Poortjie near Orange Farm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThrough intelligence information, the team of investigators managed to trace and arrest five suspects and recover an unlicensed firearm on Tuesday 13 January. Four of the suspects were arrested in Evaton, while the fifth one was arrested in Germiston,\u201d said Nevhuhulwi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cA preliminary investigation led the team to Brits where they discovered the victims\u2019 vehicle abandoned at a car wash. The vehicle was fixed with false number plates but had the correct disc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The firearm will be subjected to ballistic testing to determine whether it was used in the commission of crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspects are expected to appear before the Vereeniging magistrate\u2019s court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/\">TimesLIVE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gauteng police have arrested five suspects for alleged the hijacking, kidnap and murder of two women, both aged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[14757,4853,14758,3126,14756,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-24143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-evaton","9":"tag-gbv","10":"tag-murder-police-gauteng","11":"tag-new-years-eve","12":"tag-orange-farm","13":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}