Popular SA DJ on the run after killing girlfriend

A popular JoziFM DJ has allegedly stabbed and killed his lover and is reportedly on the run.

The incident happened on Sunday morning at Jabulani in Soweto, south of Johannesburg.

Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said the girlfriend's friend called the cops and told them that the DJ told her to go and see what he'd done.

He allegedly told her he'd stabbed his girlfriend and she was dead.

"She said he told her he regretted what he had done," Makhubela said.

"We had to ask the caretaker to open the unit for us."

He said they found the woman's body lying on the bed.

"She had a stab wound in the upper part of her body," he said.

A case of murder was opened at Jabulani Police Station.

"The suspect is still at large,"  Makhubela said.

A neighbour said the DJ was an abusive lover who beat up his girlfriend in full view of people in their complex.

"He broke furniture in their house and the whole neighbourhood had to wake up and help the poor girl.

"We did not think it would end this way," he said.

Another neighbour said the DJ was rude to everyone in the complex.

The neighbour said the girlfriend was doing her Masters at Wits University and was nearing the end of her degree.

"We would constantly go and reprimand him but he never listened."

He said the woman complained about the abuse but never left.

They helped her open a case but she would go back and drop it.

Another neighbour said the DJ looked miserable yesterday.

She said she asked him how he was doing and he held his head and pointed at the house.

"I did not know he had done something this terrible," she said.