Sky News has compiled the responses to a brief question and answer session with a number of South African men, detailing their attitudes to women and rape. More than a few of the men admit to raping multiple women. Read the answers, below, and be aware that what follows may constitute a trigger for PTSD sufferers.
Well, this is probably the most depressing thing you’ll read today. The social chair of Phi Kappa Tau at Georgia Tech sent an email to his chapter, with the subject line “Luring your Rapebait”. The email is a how-to for coercing sex out of women at frat parties, and includes the stern command, “NO RAPING”. Why are we not surprised that these guys need this instruction? Here’s the email
Power FM owner, Given Mkhari says he plans to lay charges of extortion and trespassing against a a 25-year-old media studies student and Vodacom service centre employee who has accused him 0f raping her. The unnamed woman laid the charge of sexual assault against the PowerFM co-founder eight months after the alleged incident. Mkhari says he is the victim of a targeted campaign of harassment.
Before Madonna was Madonna she was just another blonde girl looking to make it big in New York City. In a recent cover story for the November issue of Haper’s Bazaar, the Queen of Pop opened up about her early days starting out in the Big Apple, and how it was no walk in the park.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate’s acting executive director, Koekie Mbeki, said her directorate was investigating 168 cases in which SAPS cops were accused of rape. She went on to say that the figure was “substantially higher” than the 40 rape cases reported in the preceding financial year – you don’t say.
Behold: The biggest ad agency in the world. Vavi accuser withdraws rape allegations. Wendi Murdoch hires hard-core lawyer. Zille for Gauteng Premier. Kate went natural, with no pain killers. How Facebook can avoid a slow, painful death.
According to The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid), a police captain was arrested in Worcester on Friday for allegedly raping a woman in his official SAPS vehicle in June of this year. Spokesperson Moses Dlamini said: The complainant alleges that on 20 June at about 23.30 she was raped by the suspect who was driving […]
The FHM features editor, Max Barashenkov and his colleague, Montle Moorosi have issued an apology for comments made regarding corrective rape on their Facebook accounts via a joint wordpress blog. Read it here.
Remarks made by relief magistrate Herman Badenhorst at the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court have been criticised by most. Badenhorst said to a convicted rapist that he should feel free to commit rape in prison.
FHM South Africa has suspended their features editor, for making a joke about corrective rape on his Facebook page. FHM suspended one other employee, Montle Moorosi for his participation in the thread under the status update. The private FB comments made by Max & Montle are indefensible. FHM is taking immediate disciplinary action. — FHM […]
FHM South Africa features editor, Max Barashenkov has unleashed the hellstorm of the decade on himself and FHM South Africa after comments he made regarding corrective rape on his Facebook profile were screengrabbed and tweeted on Tuesday. In a status update, Barashenkov wrote: “i propose correctional rape and sterilization for any white person who twerks.” […]
Since the release of Amanda Berry and three other captives, gory details describing their time in captivity have emerged. The latest evidence to have been discovered includes ropes and chains from the home in Cleveland, Ohio where the women where being held.
In a titanic effort to become the single most hated South African on the internet, convicted criminal and occasionally bankrupt nightclub owner Kenny Kunene has confirmed that he sleeps with underage girls, and loves being “raped” by women.
TechCrunch founder, Michael Arrington has been accused of physical abuse and rape. The allegations were made by his ex-girlfriend, Jenn Allen in a Facebook post to her 4 500 followers
This hi-tech bracelet has mobile phone technology built in which can send prepared messages when the bracelet is triggered, using phone and sat-nav technology to warn of the wearer being in danger, and pinpoint their exact location. Distress alerts are sent as posts to Facebook and Twitter.
Three Indian automobile engineering students at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology University in Chennai claim to have developed a sexual offences defence in India in the form of lingerie
The Steubenville rape case has captured the national agenda of the United States. Two high school students stand accused of raping a 16 year-old girl after she passed out at a party. Disgusted by a widespread sentiment in the US that the victim could have somehow avoided her fate, university student Samantha Stendal decided to take a […]
Given the recent conversation around rape in South Africa, we decided to test how prepared our officers in the immediate Cape Town area are to assist a citizen wanting to lay a charge of rape. We visited Lansdowne Police Station, Claremont Police Station and Wynberg Police Station, and asked the Constables on duty to define […]
The media is often criticized for their objective, no-sides-taking approach when reporting on tragedies and disasters – even where clear victims can be identified.
Swaziland has banned women from wearing miniskirts, low-rise jeans, and tanktops, saying these items of clothing provoke rape. Those who break the law will face a six-month jail term under the ban, which invokes a colonial criminal act dating back to 1889.
Brie Lybrand is a former beauty pageant contestant with her own YouTube channel, called The New Orleans Beauty Guru. But her latest upload is very different from her usual upbeat beauty tutorials, and is truly heartbreaking to watch.
You may remember the story of Josef Frizl, the crazy Austrian who locked up his daughter in the basement. He was eventually caught out by the police, and will be spending the rest of his natural life in jail. He now wants a divorce from his marriage of 52 years, claiming his wife has failed to visit him.
“Jaco Steyn, I am Louise de Waal’s mother – you killed my child and you will pay for what you did.” These words were spoken by the mother of one of the “Sunday Rapist’s” victims shortly before he was found guilty yesterday on 33 charges – including kidnapping, rape, and murder.
Earlier today, Thabo Bester, also known as the “Facebook rapist”, appeared in the Western Cape High Court and was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes.
The man known as the ‘Facebook Rapist’ described in detail yesterday at the Cape Town High Court how he killed young model Nomfundo Tyhulu last year. He is already serving 50 years for raping and robbing two other models.
A Cape Town woman has accused four members of New Zealand’s under-20 team, the Baby Blacks, of gang rape at the Southern Sun Hotel Newlands on Friday night.
While on her way back from school on Monday afternoon, an 8-year girl was pulled into a sugarcane field by a 15-year old male learner, where she was brutally raped and mutilated and left for dead.
This morning we told you about the horrible incident that saw a group of boys in Soweto kidnap and gang-rape an underage girl on camera. Concerns were even higher, as the girl featured in the video was reported missing as well. The good news is that she has reportedly been found alive and is currently at the Dobsonville police station.
This is absolutely disgusting, and I’m not quite sure how I feel about the whole thing. It happened though. A group of boys in Soweto, aged between 14 and 20, kidnapped a 17 year-old girl, and then proceeded to gang rape her. The details get a little more shocking than that.
A Cape Town man was apparently raped by a man dressed as a woman on Wednesday in Observatory. He was sexually assaulted after the “woman” forced him into a dark alleyway. “She” was wearing a wig, black miniskirt, and wielded a knife. The 26 year-old victim has since had to receive counseling after his traumatic experience.