What started out as seemingly opportunistic crimes in which a serial rapist targeted women walking alone at night, soon developed into a pattern of isolating his victims in his taxi, where he would carry out his predatory attacks.

Already serving a 14-year prison sentence for the 2019 rape of a passenger, DNA evidence later linked jikeleza operator Anele Skunyana, 35, to seven more rapes that were committed between March 2013 and March 2019, including the rape of an eight-year-old girl...