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One notable case of this was the gang-rape and murder of Eudy Simelane, a member of the South African football team and LGBT-rights activist. [35] Thirty-one lesbians have died from these attacks in the last 10 years and more than ten lesbians per week are raped or gang-raped in Cape Town alone. [36] Corrective rape is also perpetrated against ...
[36] [9] [37] Mrwetyana's death as well as the rape and death of other women precipitated widespread public outcry that led to a two-day campus shutdown at the University of Cape Town. [38] Mrwetyana's death "ignited a movement" [8] [9] and is known to have "shifted the South African collective consciousness". [7]
The United Nations in South Africa issued a statement strongly condemning the rape and murder. [6] On 13 February, a protest, led by Annie Lennox, was staged at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town. [7] Booysen and Reeva Steenkamp, both young South African women killed in 2013, were named SA Persons of the year 2013 by the Daily Maverick. [8]
In March 2011, there was an article published that stated that there are about 10 new cases of corrective rape a week in Cape Town. [63] Cape Town, South Africa, specifically has 2.5 million people and since 2011, the prevalence of corrective rape has only increased.
The organisation operates throughout South Africa, with the main centers being in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Woman Against Rape or "W.A.R." focuses on the rehabilitation of sexual assault survivors through the distribution of "comfort packs" throughout the country, as well as raising awareness [2] about the issues of sexual assault across ...
A former director at a Massachusetts migrant shelter is speaking out against what he says were incidents of widespread violence, child sexual assault and rape at shelters in the state, including ...
Community HEART raised funds for organisations such as Rape Crisis Cape Town, as well as for initiatives to provide books and computers to schools. With the support of German friends he established Community HEART eV in Essen in Germany in 1996, where he met Edelgard Nkobi. He subsequently visited Germany many times, learning to speak German ...
In a case control study, for example, of 191 adolescent girls (mean age 16.3 years) attending an antenatal clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, and 353 non pregnant adolescents matched for age and neighborhood or school, 31.9% of the study cases and 18.1% of the controls reported that force was used during their sexual initiation. When asked ...