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  Mandla Mandela: “Sexual Age Of Consent Is A White, Western Notion”

  25 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

  Three prominent gender rights organisations met with Mandla Mandela yesterday. This, after he made statements regarding South Africa’s sexual age of consent last year, saying that when it comes to culture, the sexual age of consent is a “white, Western notion.” He was specifically referring to the ukuthwala practice, where girls as young as 14-years-old are abducted and forcefully married to older men.

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