Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - South Africa’s Hell on Earth

It is incorrect to say that nobody noticed the rape and murder of the 17 year old in South Africa.  Reeva Steenkamp (late girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius) was planning to wear black for her the next day as part of a nationwide campaign in that country.

While I agree that the statistics for violence against women in South Africa are truly horrifying, when the writer says that Nelson Mandela "tours the world enjoying the benefits of his sainthood", I wonder whether Mandela is in a flying hospital or what?  To say that it was the international community which "insisted" on handing power to the most violent elements in what he likes to call "Rhodesia" leaves one wondering whether the writer feels that democratic elections and the choice of the people should have been thrown in the trashcan.

As the writer is described as someone who is studying "militant Islam", one should expect that the contributions to that subject from one who is so liberal with the facts on this (SA) will be of the oil-on-flames variety, not the oil-on-troubled-waters kind.

Ayo

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On 19 Mar 2013, at 22:49, Olu Abejide <mystock@ymail.com> wrote:

When a 23-year-old woman was raped and tortured to death in Delhi, the case captured the attention of the world. Two months later, a 17-year-old girl was raped and tortured to death near Cape Town in an eerily similar case, but hardly anyone noticed. In both cases, the women were gang raped, mutilated and cut open. But the rape and murder of women has become horrifyingly common in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela is still officially venerated as a saint, his smiling face appearing on countless posters, while the man himself, having solved all the problems of his native country, tours the world with a group of elders, including Kofi Annan and Jimmy Carter, to solve the problems of other countries; but while Mandela tours, his own country has descended into its own kind of hell.

For women, South Africa may be the worst place on earth. South Africa is one of the few countries on earth where women die before men.

South Africa has the most rapes per capita of anywhere in the world. 3,600 rapes happen in South Africa every day. 40% percent of South African women will be raped. In one survey, 1 in 4 men admitted to being rapists. 1 in 10 of those admitted to raping little girls. Children are believed to be the victims of 41% of the rapes in the country.

But the best picture of how nightmarish South Africa has become for women may be that the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma of the African National Congress, had been on trial for rape. Since the trial, Zuma's accuser has fled abroad, after being threatened, while Zuma rules South Africa. Read More

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