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
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. Now, stories of this nature, as we all know, are nothing new; Africa has long been dogged with the reputation of money ending up in the wrong hands and the people being used as pawns in a global game which all the other countries frequently capitalise on. But what was new about this story was the scale of it all, which seemed surprising, even by Africa’s standards; according to the information the piece conveyed, lesbians are being persecuted by the thousands over there as we speak. Not just persecuted but raped, beaten and routinely killed. And the police are nowhere in plain sight. In many cases they are — allegedly — in on it. This is the kind of terrible situation that the country is in and it shows no sign of slowing down any time soon.
According to the source of the story, these heinous acts are being committed by men who are doing this to ’convert' the women to the right sexuality. And this isn’t something any of the men are scared to speak publicly about. Indeed, more worryingly, this is an opinion which runs through the veins of the country: that homosexuality is wrong in God’s eyes, and anything against homosexuals, violent or otherwise, is deemed absolutely OK.
There has, as you might expect, been a huge backlash against this already. Many comments have been left on the page of the article, and there has been a huge global campaign underway for a while to get the atrocities to stop.
Where it will end is a good question, but one thing is for sure: other nations can’t just stand with crossed arms and watch the blood shed. Everyone from Occupational Therapy Jobs to police officers will have to start waking up to the fact that the only thing that will get this to stop is direct action.
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