One child is raped in South Africa every three minutes, a report by trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday.
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/ 27 December 2008
A two-year-old girl was allegedly raped at Zingqayi Village in Butterworth on December 25, Eastern Cape police said on Friday.
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/ 6 November 2008
A seven-year-old girl who could hardly walk refused to tell her mother that she had been raped by ”uncle” out of fear for her life.
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/ 18 September 2008
A deep-sea fisherman who participated in the gang rape of a 14-year-old girl was on Thursday jailed by the Cape High Court for 16 years.
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/ 9 September 2008
Alleged serial rapist Tsediso Letsoenya tried to force a 12-year-old boy to have sex with a teenaged girl, the Cape High Court heard on Tuesday.
A 68-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 13-year-old disabled daughter in Kwamhlanga, Mpumalanga police said on Monday.
Child witnesses are often made to confront their assailants, write Anita Funke and Sandiso Phaliso.
The Grahamstown High Court sentenced a man who raped a seven-year-old girl last year to life in prison on Friday.
Two out of five South African schoolchildren say they have been raped, according to a study published on Tuesday.
A 42-year-old Namibian accused of raping a 10-year-old girl was genetically linked to her rape by a DNA analysis, the Grahamstown High Court heard.
An eight-year-old Worcester boy told his teacher and his mother that he was repeatedly raped, beaten and threatened by children at his school.