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Wikepedia, Sexual violence in South Africa
The rate of
sexual violence in South Africa is among the highest recorded in the world. Police statistics of reported
rapes as a per capita figure have been dropping in recent years, although the reasons for the drop have not been analysed, and it is not known how many rapes go unreported. More women are attacked than men, and children have also been targeted, partly owing to a myth that having sex with a
virgin will cure a man of
HIV/AIDS. Rape victims are at high risk of contracting HIV/AIDS owing to the high prevalence of the disease in South Africa. "
Corrective rape" is also perpetrated against
LGBT men and women...
In 1998, one in three of the 4,000 women questioned in
Johannesburg had been raped, according to Community Information, Empowerment and Transparency (CIET) Africa...
The comprehensive study 'Rape in South Africa' in 2000 indicated that 2.1% of women aged 16 years or older across population groups reported that they had been sexually abused at least once between the beginning of 1993 and March 1998, results which seem to conflict starkly with the MRC survey results...
More than 25% of South African men questioned in a survey published by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in June 2009 admitted to rape; of those, nearly half said they had raped more than one person...
48% of sexual and gender minorities in South Africa have experienced sexual violence. This is according to the 2019 study titled 'Are we doing alright? Realities of Violence, Mental Health, and Access to Healthcare Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression in South Africa...
Averaging all provinces, rape ranked 7th in the crime that respondents thought was most prevalent, after
housebreaking,
property theft,
robbery,
murder, livestock theft, and assault...
South Africa has some of the highest incidences of
child and infant rape in the world...
The Tears Foundation and the MRC stated 50% of South Africa's children will be abused before the age of 18...
Lesbians in certain parts of South Africa also face a dangerous environment.
Raping lesbians (a practice referred to as
corrective rape) is believed to convert them to
heterosexuality...
It is estimated that over 40% of South African women will be raped in their lifetime and that only one in nine rapes are reported...
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