South Africa: The "Rape Capital" of the World

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South Africa: The "Rape Capital" of the World

South Africa's tougher laws on rape to go into effect

CAPE TOWN – After a protracted delay, tough new laws against sexual abuse will finally enter force Sunday in South Africa, which is often called the “rape capital”�”� of the world.

The Justice Ministry said Friday that the Sexual Offenses Amendment Act would help the country “fight the scourge of sexual offenses head-on”�”� and would at last give greater protection to victims of sexual crimes.

For the first time, victims will be able to go to court to force their attackers to take AIDS tests. An estimated 5.4 million South Africans are infected with HIV - the highest number of any country in the world.

More than 50,000 rape cases were reported last year, almost 150 per day. Based on reported cases alone, South Africa has 114 rapes per 100,000 people, compared with a rate of 32 rapes per 100,000 in the United States, according to police figures. Women’s rights groups estimate that only one in nine rapes is reported to police.

The definition of rape was until now narrow and outdated. Attacks on children, for instance, were often classified as indecent assault, not rape - even though the young are often targeted because of the mistaken belief that sex with a child can rid the body of the HIV virus.

The new law says that sexual penetration by objects other than a penis would be classed as rape - which usually is punished with a life sentence - rather than sexual assault, for which there are lesser sentences. For the first time, male-on-male sexual assault is classed as rape.

The new law introduces tougher measures to protect children and the mentally disabled from sexual exploitation and child pornography. It would also set up a register of sexual offenders so that schools and other institutions dealing with children could vet candidates for jobs.

The bill was approved by parliament before it went into recess last month after being held up for more than a year because of technical legal problems over the clauses about compulsory HIV tests for sexual offenders.

The revised legislation said all victims should be entitled to apply for a court order to compel the alleged sex offender to take an AIDS test, and should get free medication immediately after the rape to reduce the risks of contracting the virus. Given the delay in HIV infection showing up in tests, many women currently face weeks of agonized uncertainty over whether their attacker carried the deadly virus.

The provisions on AIDS testing will take effect in March because of the legal complexities involved, the Justice Ministry said.

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Rape is a sickening and despicable act - It's only logical a nation overflowing with sickening and despicable creatures would hold the title of such depravity. Niggers are a curse of Biblical proportions. The only true, natural and sound emotion for the beast is 100% pure hatreds. For any person who holds anything other than contempt in their hearts for the beast, that person also possesses unhealthy and abnormal thoughts in their heads. No matter what one is taught or brainwashed into believing about the nigger-beast, if common sense doesn't override fallacies, there's something wrong within that person. Niggers: Ain't Wurf Ah Chit - The Lowest Form of Life on the Face of the Earth.

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Johannesburg, South Africa was one of the cleanest and safest cities in the world, but after apartheid ended it became one of the most dangerous cities in the world, all within a period of about five years. We can thank Time magazine's 1993 man of the year, hero of the left, convicted terrorist, civilian train bomber and lets not forget Marxist murderer, Nelson Mandela and his ANC thugs. His heir apparent Mbeki is following right in his footsteps. Everybody take a good look at Zimbabwe because that is where South Africa is headed. And just think, South Africa has nukes too...

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Today's South Africa: A Nigger Paradise

Half of South Africa's young have AIDS from rape

Analysing this past year in South Africa, very grim statistics emerge which do not bode well for the country's long-term future. Since 1994, some 640,000 people have been murdered; 500,000 females of all ages are raped per year; 6,1-m people are HIV+...

And, medical researchers warn, this is all mainly due to the pervading culture of rape, in which an annual 500,000 females of all ages are raped from the smallest babies to old women, that the HIV-AIDS epidemic has been able to spread like wildfire.

More than 25% of all the females of South Africa, (pop.47-million) even from early babyhood onward, can expect to be raped at least once. Countrywide, last year's latest available statistics from the SA Child P
rotection Unit noted that some 16,068 children were reported raped last year - out of the total 36,190 rapes reported. A total of 1,400 children were also among the 18,487 people who were murdered last year.

The offical rape statistics are grossly underreported.

Rape treatment experts say some 500,000 rapes occur each year - far higher than the reported rapes which people report to the SA Police Service.

More than 6,1-million young people now are infected with the HI-virus which leads to deadly AIDS.

The country's young people increasingly die of AIDS and its companion disease, extremely drug-resistant Tuberculosis -- at a rate of at least 350,000 every year.

South African funeral homes are doing a brisk trade with about 28,000 deaths a month. This is just one Soweto cemetery preparing for each Saturday's steady stream of funerals

Und
ertakers are doing a brisk trade and cemeteries are bursting at the seams. There are over 100 funeral homes in Soweto alone. And the one main cause behind these horrific statistics is the culture of violence-driven rape which permeates all of South African life – and always has done.

Before 1994, AIDS was rarely diagnosed among heterosexual black communities. In fact the ANC-regime spokesmen often were heard to describe it as 'the white man's disease'. And the culture of rape which continued after 1994, was being blamed on apartheid by the SA Human Rights Commission.

However, mainly because of this permeating culture of rape, fifteen years later, some 6,1-million mostly black young people are already dying of HIV/AIDS, and many thousands of new infections are notified each month.

The latest reports from the Medical Research Council, Medicins Sans Frontieres and the Treatment Action Campaign warn that most of the child-bearing age population of South Africa is now being infected with HIV-AIDS
because of the rape epidemic. Rapists are seeking out increasingly younger victims, so even the smallest little girls now are getting HIV-infections from rapists.

Immediately after apartheid ended in 1994, the country’s violent crime rate also jumped dramatically when the ANC-government replaced most of the previous (white but experienced) police force with inexperienced, new black recruits from the townships.

In this resulting security vacuum, the pre-1994 murder and rape statistics rose within a year, from an annual 5,100 murders/homicides to an average of 43,000 now. Thus far, some 645,000 people have already been killed in criminal violence over the past 15 years.

Contrary to the prevailing propaganda, the statistics show that during apartheid, the annual criminal deaths mostly occurred due to blacks killing blacks, 92%, according to a report by the SA Human Rights Commission. A total of 8,580 (92%) of the 9,325 violent deaths during the period June 1990 to July 1993 were for instance, amo
ng mineworkers killing each other in turf wars or rows at male mine hostels and during the (still ongoing) local power battles between the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party and the Xhosa-dominated African National congress supporters. All these events were blamed on the system of apartheid.

During the same period June 1990 to July 1993, the combined security forces – the SA police and the defence force -- caused a total of 518 deaths of whom 89% were black victims.

Current government denies extent of crime:

According to Dr Elmin Steyn of the Trauma Society of South Africa, the true number of deaths due to crime and violence in South Africa now remain pretty much mystery. And, he warned that trauma victims also are not being helped by 'ridiculous statements by ANC leaders' see ' telling those who have experienced violent crime and voice their concerns, to leave the country.This does not assist in the emotional healing process. Denying our statistics on violent crime is simply a mean
s of avoiding responsibility."

500,000 women raped in South Africa each year

Medical researchers are all in agreement that the main reason why HIV-AIDS is at such a high level in South Africa is rape. Yet in spite of frequent protests, there seems to be little or no attempt by authorities to try and address this issue publicly, even now that at least 50% of the entire child-bearing next generation is being infected with HIV-AIDS.

Gang rape is a youth cult in black townships

Gang rape -- referred to as jackrolling -- has become a youth-cult in South Africa.

These youth gangs hunt for females to rape throughout the sprawling township of Soweto near Johannesburg with just one aim: to impregnate every female under age 26 in the township. Whenever such rapists are kicked out of their gang, their victims often lodge charges with local community leaders, telling them about the rape, and tribal courts often are held, in which vigilante justice is meted out.

Rape is also a form of init
iation among the men: new inmates in male prisons are inevitably raped upon arrival by all members of any given cell although most lead heterosexual lifestyles outside of prison.

No condoms

And HIV-infections are spread very rapidly this way medical experts warn: these gang-rapes occur without any kind of lubrication and of course without condoms - and the severe friction causes mucosal tearing and bleeding, making HIV-transfer through the vaginal walls a certainty.

Dr. S. Armstrong, one leading researcher warned in a report published by the National Institutes of Health in the USA, that 'such conditions of unprotected, unlubricated sex (rape) with multiple partners are one important reason why HIV is so rapidly transmitted in South Africa.'

Women in SA get beaten for using contraceptives, are denied condom use:

Researchers K. Wood and R. Jewkes also report on studies among pregnant adolescents in Cape Town that there is 'widespread male coercion and violence within these sexua
l relationships. The pregnant teens reported 'assault as a regular feature of their relationships.'

"Men use physical assault to force sexual contact, beating their female partners if they refuse to have sex, or if they are found to be using contraceptives. Women often get infected with HIV because of the culture of gang rape - yet health officials in SA 'refuse to acknowledge sexual encounters such as these as rape."

Researcher L. de K Ackermann from the department of sociology at the University of the Free State also writes: “it is evident that social factors such as the high rate of rape... and their inability to insist on condom usage, make South African women unable to negotiate the timing of sex and its conditions. They are powerless to protect themselves against HIV-infection.'

Ackermann also slammed the current HIV-prevention campaigns, which don't take into account the fact that females, from a very early age onward, have no control whatsoever over their own sexual liv
es, warning:

"The rampant spread of this disease can only be stemmed if the subordinate sexual position of woman is acknowledged and addressed,' Ackermann warned.

“The degree to which women are able or not able to control various aspects of their sexual lives is clearly a critical question for health promotion and the prevention of AIDS.

“It is evident that social factors such as the high rate of rape, the unfavourable economic position of women, and their inability to insist on condom usage make South African women unable to negotiate the timing of sex and the conditions under which it occurs. They are…powerless to protect themselves against HIV infection.

"Prevention campaigns often do not take into account the reality of their daily lives and the difficulties they have to gain control over their own sexual lives. The rampant spread of this disease can only be stemmed if the subordinate position of women is acknowledged and addressed.”

"It is these (male-dominated) po
wer relations which determine women's ability or inability to protect themselves against sexually transmitted disease, pregnancy, and unwelcome sexual acts.'

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Big jump in S Africa sex offences

The police are struggling to cope with the crime levels

The latest crime statistics in South Africa show a slight decrease in the murder rate but a sharp rise in burglaries and sexual offences.

While the murder rate has fallen by 3%, this still represent more than 18,000 killings per year and is one of the highest rates in the world.

Sexual offences have risen by 10%, which the government partly attributes to the inclusion of attacks on men.

Officials insist that security is not a problem at the 2010 Football World Cup.

This is being hosted by South Africa - the first time the event has
been held on the continent - and the country is expecting tens of thousands of extra foreign visitors.

Opposition parties have criticised the government's record on crime.

Nationwide, some 2.1m serious crimes were recorded in the past year.

Intolerable

Police Minister Nkosinathi Mthethwa told Parliament in Cape Town that a collaborative effort was needed in the fight against crime.

Mr Mthethwa said while there had largely been a decrease in robberies at big businesses, small business and informal traders had seen an increase in violent robberies.

"Issues like the vulnerability of cash often [on site] and the unavailability of resources to implement crime prevention measures contributes to making these businesses vulnerable," he said.

Overall, thefts in business have shot up by 41% over the past year.

Residential burglaries have also shown an increase - of 27%.

The statistics revealed more than 18,000 South Africans were attacked by
robbers in their own homes.

"It is one of the crimes that are most intrusive and personalise the crime experience… We simply cannot tolerate a situation where people do not feel safe in their homes," he said.

South Africa has long had extremely high levels of rape.

Earlier this year, a survey in parts of South Africa reported that one in four men admitted to having forced a woman to have sex against her will.

This is the first year that sexual offences against men have been included with those against women.

Last month, a white South African man was given asylum in Canada after saying he had been attacked on seven different occasions.

His lawyer argued that the government was unable to protect its citizens.

But Canada's government has launched an appeal against the granting of the refugee status after protests from Pretoria said the ruling was "racist".

The legacy of apartheid, social deprivation and corruption within the police force
are among the reasons often cited for high levels of crime.

The BBC's Karen Allen in Johannesburg says President Jacob Zuma has put the fight against crime centre stage with the appointment of a new, tough-talking Police Commissioner.

But many commentators warn against populist measures and say that unless the underlying problems are addressed, violent crime will continue.