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/ 2 September 2009
A 20-year-old Pietermaritzburg man was on Wednesday given a 35-year jail sentence for raping a 51-year-old woman.
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/ 2 September 2009
The court should impose a harsh sentence on one of the seven men convicted of gang raping a pregnant woman in Tembisa in 2005.
The sentencing of the seven men found guilty of gang raping a pregnant woman in Tembisa in 2005 was again postponed on Wednesday.
Julius Malema has distorted the facts of the Zuma rape case, sexual violence expert Lisa Vetten testified in his Equality Court hearing on Friday.
Dumisani Rebombo had not been circumcised, did house chores considered girls’ work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man.
One in four men in SA have admitted to rape and many confess to attacking more than one victim, according to a study by the Medical Research Council.
South Africa’s fearsome record for robbery, murder and rape may be the single biggest challenge facing organisers of next year’s Soccer World Cup.
Judgement continues on Wednesday against serial rapist and notorious prison escapee Annanias Mathe, who has already been convicted of 51 crimes.
A Japanese computer game maker on Friday dismissed a protest by US rights campaigners against the game <i>RapeLay</i>.
Norah Dyantyi’s life never extended beyond her village, but news of her death reverberated throughout the Eastern Cape.
Journalist Charlene Smith looks back at the lessons she has learned and taught others about survival over the past ten years.
A court psychiatrist yesterday described how Josef Fritzl had locked up his daughter as a way of compensating for a loveless childhood.
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Monday gave life sentences to three men found guilty of raping Jessica Foord.
Gangs of South African men are raping lesbians in the belief it will ”cure” the women’s sexual orientation, an aid agency said on Friday.
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/ 16 February 2009
Former advocate Cezanne Visser, or Advocate Barbie, admitted most of the state’s sex claims against her on Monday.
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/ 12 February 2009
A fake prophet who preyed on Free State women was jailed for 28 years by the Virginia Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, said police.
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/ 22 December 2008
A total of 1 722 people were assaulted and 111 people sustained gunshot wounds in KZN over the first 18 days of December.
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/ 21 December 2008
As militiamen rape and kill hundreds of women in the war-ravaged east of the DRC, Kinshasa has witnessed a growing wave of sexual attacks on women.
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/ 13 December 2008
Soweto police have arrested three men who allegedly took turns raping a 17-year-old girl after robbing her family in Lenasia on Friday morning.
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/ 4 December 2008
One in three women may suffer abuse and violence in her lifetime.This is an appalling and widespread human rights violation.
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/ 24 November 2008
Civilians on both sides of the frontlines in eastern DRC are being killed, raped and abducted, human rights campaigners said on Monday.
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/ 18 November 2008
Charlize Theron is the latest UN messenger of peace, turning her fame to ending violence against women and girls around the globe.
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/ 27 October 2008
A 14-year-old boy from Umzimkulu in KwaZulu-Natal has been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl.
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/ 23 October 2008
Josef Fritzl, the man who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered her seven children, has told a psychiatrist he was ”born to rape”.
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/ 14 October 2008
Two men accused of raping and beating up a Pretoria woman near a hotel in February last year claim she consented to have sex with them.
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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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/ 16 September 2008
A girl participating in the reed-dance ceremony at King Goodwill Zwelithini’s palace on the weekend was gang-raped, it was reported on Tuesday.
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/ 11 September 2008
A 19-year-old woman was gang-raped by four men and then allegedly raped again by the doctor who examined her, North West police said on Thursday.
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/ 11 September 2008
Prosecutors have called for a 12-year jail sentence to be handed down to a former UN mechanic who is charged with with raping about 20 African girls.
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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 teenage girl failed a grade at school after being allegedly raped by accused serial rapist Tsediso Letsoenya, the Cape High Court heard on Tuesday.
Complaints of a severe headache from serial rape accused Tsediso Letsoenya brought his trial in the Cape High Court to a sudden halt on Thursday.