The Guardian has a story on the results of a study by South Africa’s Medical Research Council.
The first few paragraphs:
One in four men in South Africa have admitted to rape and many confess to attacking more than one victim, according to a study that exposes the country’s endemic culture of sexual violence. Three out of four rapists first attacked while still in their teens, the study found. One in 20 men said they had raped a woman or girl in the last year. South Africa is notorious for having one of the highest levels of rape in the world. Only a fraction are reported, and only a fraction of those lead to a conviction. The study into rape and HIV, by the country’s Medical Research Council (MRC), asked men to tap their answers into a Palm Pilot device to guarantee anonymity. The method appears to have produced some unusually frank responses.
“We have a very, very, high prevalence of rape in South Africa……..It’s rooted in an African ideal of manhood.”
– Professor Rachel Jewkes
Well!
I hope that’s a typo on the professor’s part.
I wish. It’s from an extensive interview with a Guardian reporter. Later today she tried to clean it up in an interview with BBC Africa. I went to the MRC site and read the abstract of the paper. Very disturbing. To quote Professor Jacobs “I’m tired.”
Please remember that it’s a tiny sample group of men who had been interviewed: fewer than 2000 in only two provinces.
And that professor forgets that men of all races, creeds and socio-economic groups rape. To blame the high prevalence of rape on an ‘ideal African manhood’ is to ignore other factors that also contribute to it.
it’s all whitey’s fault.them evil crackers make the brothers raping scoundrels.Through telekinesis whitey’s been controlling the brothers minds turning them into primal savages & South Africa from a wealthy civilized country into the murderous uncivilized anarchy that it’s becoming.Them damn crackers went & gave up power to the brothers & now South Africa is doomed.