Almost 40 000 rape cases in SA last year

we must start to teach our fellow South African especially in that part of SA(KZN,WC...) bcuz to them women are seen as solution to their sexual problems with no respect to women, arts and culture must be involved to run campaigns that will teach our fellow brothers that we must protect women, meaning heavy penalities must be enforce to sculp down those offenders, shame on you brothers who are caught in such act 'idiots'...

I would be interested in having these figures proportional to the population of the province. That would paint a clear indication on whether KZN does have a crisis or not. This isn’t in anyway an attempt to try and absolve KZN of its terrible statistic but to try and determine a trend, if one exist. It will also help in having a defined mission of what steps will be taken in order to reach that vision of ridding the province and country of sexual offenders! I am a Durbanite and it is appalling to learn that our women population live in a lion’s den, no, make that a ‘predator’s’ den!!
Thandanani Umlaw

Nearly 40 thousand REPORTED rape cases and ONLY 12% percent (4,800) conviction rate.WE HAVE GOT THE BEST POLICE & JUDICIAL IN THE WORLD.KwaZulu Natal,"which enrolled 7 278 cases", same place that gave us Commissioner 'Cowboy' Cwele.Looks like he was doing a very good job there to warrant a promotion.

How many of these animals are repeat offenders? Do we have a register for rapist in this country?

How many cases go unreported?

The problem is bigger than it seems because most rapee's do not report the crime.

I'm quoting off the DA RSS:

"Every day about 60 cases of child rape are reported to the police in South Africa. If NGOs and other organisations working with children cannot gain access to a list of abusers there is a danger that we will lose the battle of protecting children against further abuse in this country."

"The response states that the electronic integration systems for sharing conviction information from the Departments of Justice & Constitutional Development and the police will be phased in over a period of five years, making this Child Protection Register only operational from 2014."

"With regards to the National Sexual Offences Register, the DA understands that it is ‘operational’ with phase I complete, but that phase II is incomplete. Phase I deals with records of current convictions but phase II, which deals with past convictions, will only be completed within 18-24 months according to the Department of Justice because they are waiting on updated information from the South African Police Service. The National Register for Sex Offenders was due to become operational at the end of 2008; then, due to delays at the Justice Department, the legislation was amended to set the date back to 30 June 2009. The Register will now apparently only be ready in 2011."

I don't like it one little bit.

chica