SA's 148 rapes a day

[dArKeR]

South Africa's rape and attempted rape figures are up 2,7% year-on-year for the financial years 2000/01 and 2001/02, according to Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.

In reply to questions from New National Party MP Richard Pillay, the minister said there were 52 872 rape or attempted rapes in 2000/01, but this had risen to 54 293 -- an average of 148 per day -- the following financial year.

With regard to robbery the figures for the respective years were 203 931and 206 941 -- or up 1.5% year-on-year.

Murder figures were down, however, by 1,6% from 21 758 to 21 405 -- an average of 59 people a day -- while housebreaking numbers were also 1,2% lower, from 394 607 to 389 771 cases.

Cases of "other theft" were up 3% from 559 636 to 576 676 while hijacking figures were down 1,5% from 19 478 to 19 179.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19651

For about a California sized country this looks really bad!

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[roguevalley]

1. there's a belief

that having sex with a virgin cures aids. Even babies
in their cradles are getting molested. Its shocking and
terrible.

[arcane1]

2. but God forbid we tell them about condoms!

or even worse: GIVE them condoms!

[pansypoo53219]

3. georgie

prefers abstinence.

[nn2004]

8. Rapists don't use condoms

Give the victims concealed weapons to defend against the rapists.

[prolesunited]

6. Here's a link

to a story about that. It immediately sprang to mind when I saw the subject line.

South Africans Rape Children As Cure for Aids

Almost a third of Nelspruit's 600,000 people are HIV positive. Now the city has another problem, a dramatic increase in child rape caused by the myth that sex with a virgin cures Aids, reports David Beresford.

By Guardian Newspapers, 6/28/2003
Nelspruit, the provincial capital of Mpumalanga, previously known as Eastern Transvaal, is running out of space for graves. Cemeteries expected to last another 50 years are now full. The announcement, another marker in a growing pandemic, comes as a new parliamentary report has condemned as lamentable the health facilities in one of the world's epicentres of Aids.

An estimated 31 per cent of Nelpruit's population of 600,000 is infected. Now the city has another problem, a dramatic increase in child rape caused by the myth that sex with a virgin cures HIV.

Until 2000 most rape victims were adults. but there was an abrupt turn-around from 2001, when 65 to 70 per cent of victims were children, some as young as two weeks old. The city seems helpless in the face of its woes. The ANC's provincial Health Minister, Sibongile Manana, has been placed under 'curatorship' - the Minister of Housing and the Minister of Public Works are going to help her do her job.

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/6-28-2003-42319.asp

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[Sweetpea]

5. Tragic

[loudsue]

7. If these rapes involve AIDS carriers, the population of S. Africa will

drop dramatically within the next generation. If the babies and virgins are being infected w/ AIDS at a young age, and with no drug therapies being made available, there will be massive deaths -- for a second and third generation.

Talk about ethnic cleansing...!!!! They're doing it to their own. This is terribly tragic.

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