Previous studies of homicides in South Africa have examined serial murders and mass killings. While some scholars have examined parricides in African countries such as Ghana and Zimbabwe, few have examined the intersection of parricide and multiple victim homicides in the context of South Africa. This paper examines multiple victim parricides in a South African context using newspapers and court records as data. Eighteen cases of multiple‐victim parricides were identified and analysed. Our findings indicate that multiple victim parricides in South Africa are shaped by residential patterns as well as social and cultural factors that are unique to South Africa that are embodied in the offence characteristics. The implications on the findings are discussed.

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1990-2019年，南非多次受害者

南非以前对凶杀案的研究研究了连环谋杀和大屠杀。尽管一些学者研究了非洲国家（如加纳和津巴布韦）的杀人行为，但很少有人研究南非背景下的杀人与多种杀人凶手的交集。本文使用报纸和法院记录作为数据，在南非的背景下研究了多个受害人。鉴定并分析了18例多重受害者的案例。我们的研究结果表明，南非的多个受害群体是由居住模式以及犯罪特征中体现出的南非独有的社会和文化因素所塑造的。讨论了对发现的影响。