Oh, and three days later, here's someone who was raped by 10. At the age of 20, raped by 10 men. Rapes of white women by black men garner a disproportionate amount of media attention, but most victims are black women and girls attacked by black men, usually someone they know. Kids here have seen people set on fire, seen their parents dragged off and tortured. In the impoverished squatter camps of Alexandra, outside Johannesburg, poverty makes women vulnerable.
Families live and sleep together in one room shanties, exposing girls to predatory older relatives.
The streets are unlit, and women lucky enough to have jobs often have to walk long distances alone to get there. Prince Masina, an ex-con who now coordinates a prison project to reduce violence against women, said that rape in the townships is often committed by career criminals. It's the elite gangs, those that have got the money from robbing and stealing cars. Or, as often happens, a man who feels slighted by a woman or girl will come back with his friends to punish her. It's not about lust, or because these men cannot enter a relationship.