He loved women, which is why he paid such a lot of them for sex, alleged Olievenhoutbosch serial killer Richard Jabulani Nyauza told the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday.
Nyauza said he had sex with a multitude of women but did not know anything about the serial killings in which 16 women died in 2002 and 2006.
His explanation why his DNA was found inside four of his alleged victims was that he had had consensual sex with many women — often unprotected, despite the fact that he was HIV-positive — ”because some women are opposed to the use of condoms”.
Asked if he had love relationships with women, Nyauza said, ”Very much, yes.”
Asked to elaborate, he said: ”Like someone who was working, it so happened that I would come across a woman.
”We would enter into an agreement, I would give her money and we would do what we want to do.”
He said it was difficult to say with how many women he had had sex in 2002, but he ”really believed there are many in number” and he had sex with ”maybe more than 100” in 2006.
”There were many. You know, I loved women so much.
”Some of these women would visit me at my place. Some I would visit at their places or at their friends’ places, for example when they had run away from their husbands. I would find them.”
He said the sex was always with consent because ”when you’re employed and when you’re a smart dresser, naturally women would love you”.
He denied robbing any of his alleged victims or trying to murder survivor Jane Seremane, who earlier testified how Nyauza had repeatedly stabbed her with a screwdriver before dropping her in a ditch and leaving her there for dead.
The state alleges that Nyauza had murdered 16 women in two separate killing sprees — the first in 2002 and the second in 2006 after he was released from jail, where he had spent three years awaiting trial for rape before he was acquitted.
He allegedly also raped four of his victims, robbed three women and attempted to murder one victim.
The trial continues. — Sapa