SOUTH AFRICA: RAPE a young man’s sport?

I have heard plenty news this past week but none shocks and disguts me like the South Africa Rape story. 

South Africa is a beautiful country and after i visted Capetown, i fell in love with that Rainbow nation all over again. It is hard to believe that something this shameful happens  and the sad part is the perculiaties that surrounds the South African rape stories.

You just wonder what young men are thinking these days...... Some of  the belief systems passed on within our communities are just not helping us, it further destroys what is left of this generation. How can any one even think rape as a young man's sport? Do men have to subdue women to feel powerful?

With over 56,000 cases reported to police last year alone, it leaves you baffled, what is happening. But a 2009 study by the government’s Medical Research Council revealed that only one in 25 rapes was reported to the police. The same survey found more than one-quarter of South African men admitted to raping a woman or girl. There are as much as about 450,000 rape cases which goes unreported each year.  A website reads that “It is estimated that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read,” . The website dedicated to rape victims further states that “[In] a survey conducted among 1,500 schoolchildren in the Soweto township, a quarter of all the boys interviewed said that ‘jackrolling’, a term for gang rape, was fun.”

On Tuesday, Police arrested seven youths, aged 14 to 20, after they were identified in the video. A 37-year-old man may also face charges after police found the girl in his house.

The girl, who went missing since March 21 had a horrible experience in the hands of these boys but police said her mother had not reported her missing, apparently because she often wandered off for days at a time (Regardless, it would have made a lot of difference, i think). The mother should also face cahrges of Child neglect, its just sad. 

The girl lived in Bramfischerville, a neighbourhood where reports say that raw sewage flows through the streets and it is known as one of the toughest parts of Johannesburg’s Soweto township.

This rape video has shocked us all and i feel nothing but pity for that girl. She has been traumatised and God help her to recover. 

 MY HEART SINKS ANYTIME I READ THIS:

Reports say that  the Johannesburg High Court heard 62 rape cases on monday, including a father-son pair charged with attacking 21 women together (What wickedness?)

Last month in Bloemfontein, a male nurse was in court for raping a terminally ill cancer patient, who was held down by a female nurse during the attack.

In January, a man was charged with forcing three garden workers to rape his estranged wife and then mutilate her with household tools, killing her son while she listened to him plead for his life.

Not just South Africa but shame unto any man that believes that a woman has to be subdued to prove he is masculine. With the way the rest of the world is moving forward, people have to rise above all these dangerous mindset and do something with thier lives. Don't allow the Devil to use you do his dirty work. Determine to make your life count. We are economically challenged in Africa with all manner of things going on, we shuold want better, not to be part of the problem.  Parents have to seriously consider what thier children are doing with thier minds, the type of friends they keep...... This shuold not be happeneing. It is dirty and shameful! Complete wickedness...