/ 8 July 1999

SIX HELD FOR JOURNALIST’S RAPE

SIX teenagers have been arrested for raping a 28-year-old Brazilian journalist in Johannesburg over the weekend. The youths, aged between 17 and 19, are suspected of raping the journalist on Friday, about 14 hours after she arrived in South Africa in transit to another African country. police said they had found what they believed to be her wristwatch on the wrist of one of the suspects. The teenagers are expected to appear in court on Friday. The journalist was attacked and gang-raped when she was walking to her accomodation across a stretch of open ground. She was about to start a back-packing holiday but returned to Brazil after the attack.