Rape in South Africa

Today, I came across an article on the BBC News website which didn’t surprise me at all. That, in itself, shocked me to some extent. I knew what my reaction meant: it meant, in no uncertain terms, that I had come to expect seeing such horrors as an every day thing. That concerns me a little. It makes me question what kind of a world we live in when surprise isn’t something that even occurs any more…

The story was about rapes in South Africa, the so-called ’corrective rapes’, to be precise.

lesbians are being persecuted by the thousands over there as we speak. Not just persecuted but raped, beaten and routinely killed

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