Andries Makgae

Andries Makgae (born 1962) is a South African serial killer and rapist who raped and murdered at least three women in Onderstepoort between 2012 and 2013. Suspected of other similar murders and the supposed killing of his best friend. He was convicted and sentenced to three life imprisonment terms for his crimes.

Early life Little is known about Makgae's early life. Born in 1962 in Onderstepoort, he was given a 10-year sentence for robbery and attempted murder in the early 2000s, but was released on parole in 2011. Despite being married to a Zimbabwean woman, he had a fixation on older women, even claiming to have been in a sexual relationship with his first victim.

Murders Makgae's modus operandi consisted of luring his victims, most of whom were older women, to a local shebeen, where he would pin, rape and strangle them with their underwear. After killing them, Makgae would then discard the corpses in bushes or a smallholding housing illegal immigrants, where he let the bodies decompose or get eaten by wild animals.

His first known kill was 60-year-old Maria Pilore, a woman last seen visiting a tavern in Onderstepoort on January 1, 2012. Pilore had been on her way to get some water from the nearby Bon Accord Dam, when Makgae waylaid, assaulted and killed her. After he was deemed sane, Makgae was returned to stand trial on charges of killing Pilore, Mokgatla, Mpatsi and his best friend, who was killed and his house burned, allegedly after finding out that Makgae was a murderer. He was also charged with the rape of Matjela, whom, at the time, was still alive but heavily injured. Makgae pleaded guilty to the murder charges, but not the rape charges, denied that he had ever done such a thing to his victims, but nonetheless, he was found guilty and sentenced to three consecutive life imprisonment terms. After reading out his verdict, Justice Vivian Tlhapi said that the defendant was a danger to society and unable to be rehabilitated. Not long after the verdict was announced, Selina Matjela died from natural causes, but her examining doctor determined that the attempted murder had likely sped up the process of her early demise.