Jimmy Maketta is a South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n rapist

Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...

 and serial killer

Serial killer

A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

 who in 2007 plead guilty and was convicted on 16 counts of murder, 19 counts of rape. A state psychologist described him as a psychopath.

Maketta described how he would watch farm labourers from a hill on Friday evenings near the township of Philippi, Cape Town

Philippi, Cape Town

Philippi is one of the larger townships in Cape Town, South Africa, although the exact size is unknown. Some estimates put the population at about 150,000 people.The township is relatively new. Along with Khayelitsha and Delft, it was founded in the 1980s.....

. From there he would select drunken victim that he attacked mostly at night during his nine month reign of terror between April and December 2005.