Introducing Kempton Watch

It started as an experiment. Let's burn some time and tokens on something good. Could the newest AI tools build a record of the killings in Ekurhuleni that anyone can check, line by line, against the reporting it came from?

Kempton Watch is the result. This post explains what it is, what it is not, how it is built, and what you can do with it.

What it is

Kempton Watch gathers what news outlets and official statements have published about the women found dead in Ekurhuleni since July 2026, and keeps it in one place.

A register of the victims, in the order they were found, with a map at suburb level.
Every official statement, in the speaker's own words, newest first, with arrests and court dates as reported. See statements.
A source behind every fact. Each line shows the sentence it rests on and a link to the article.
Disagreements shown, not settled. When outlets differ on a date, a place or a name, the conflicts page lists every version and who said it.
An anonymous tip form, read by a volunteer moderator and passed on to the police.
A weekly email with what changed, for anyone who wants to follow the case without reading a dozen sites.

Everything comes from the public domain: more than thirty outlets and the government's own media statements. The full list is on the sources page.

What it is not

Not the police. The site has no connection to SAPS or to any government body.
Not a theory. It names no suspects and does not guess at who did this.
Not a verdict on whether the deaths are linked. Officials have said that is not confirmed. The record says the same.
Not a tabloid. Victims are named only as an official statement or an on-the-ground outlet named them. Locations are where a woman was found, never where she lived.

How it is built

This is where the technology comes in.

A pipeline reads the articles and statements, pulls out each claim together with the sentence that supports it, and checks that the sentence really appears in the article. A claim without a matching quote is dropped. Sources are ranked: official statements first, reporters on the ground and wire copy second, rewrites and aggregators third. A fact is marked confirmed only when an official source states it or two independent on-the-ground sources agree.

The AI does the reading and the matching. It does not decide what is true. Where outlets disagree, the disagreement is published as data, and a person reviews anything that touches a name.

For the technically minded

The whole record is also an MCP server. MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is the open standard that lets an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT read a data source directly. Point your assistant at the server and ask it to brief you on the case or to check a claim you saw online. Every answer carries the quote and link behind it, and the same rules apply: names only as published, suspects never named, disagreements never resolved silently. Setup for each client is on the connect page.

I think this matters beyond one case. A community can keep its own record, checkable by anyone, without waiting for someone else to do it. And the same tools that flood the internet with guesses can be made to do the opposite: read everything, invent nothing, and show their sources.

What you can do

Read the record and check it. If something is wrong, the sources page says where to write. Corrections are made when a source corrects or an official statement contradicts.
If you know something, however small, use the tip form or call Crime Stop on 08600 10111. If someone is in danger now, call 10111.
Follow the case to get a short summary every Monday.
Pass the site on to people in Ekurhuleni.

Who runs this

Piet Speurder is a pen name. I grew up in Kempton Park and live abroad now, and I run the site anonymously because of what it covers. I am not a police officer, a detective or a journalist, and I have no link to any victim's family or to any government body. I am making contact with the police so that tips reach them safely.

You don't have to trust me. Every line links to its source.

You can contact me directly at pietspeurder@proton.me