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Titolo: così van le cose in Sudafrica

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South Africa's Rape Crisis: 1 in 4 Men Say They've Done It
By Megan Lindow / Cape Town
South Africans received a horrifying measure of just how bad their
country's rape crisis is with the release this week of a study in
which more than a quarter of men admitted to having raped, and 46% of
those said that they had raped more than once.
The study, conducted by South Africa's Medical Research Council,
reveals a deeply rooted culture of violence against women, in which
men rape in order to feel powerful, and do so with impunity, believing
that their superiority entitles them to vent their frustrations on
women and children. The men most likely to rape, the researchers
found, were not the poorest, but those who had attained some level of
education and income.
Researchers interviewed 1,738 men of all race groups, in both urban
and rural settings in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, provinces
marked by high rates of AIDS and poverty, and the men answered
questions about rape and HIV using small handheld computers in order
to guarantee anonymity. Of those admitting rape, 73% said that they
had committed their first assault before the age of 20. According to
the researchers, many of the study's participants appeared to see no
problem with what they had done. These findings, says Mbuyiselo Botha,
a senior program advisor at Sonke Gender Justice, an advocacy group
for abused women, "highlight the lack of remorse among men in our
country, and also the attitude that women remain fair game for us."
Men, says Botha, "continue to abuse even to the point of getting away
with murder."
South Africa has one of the highest incidents of reported rape in the
world. The most recent statistics show that 36,190 cases of rape were
reported to the police between April and December 2007, though experts
believe that number only accounts for one out of nine cases. But the
number of rape cases that make it to court — let alone result in a
conviction — are far fewer.
Researchers said that many of the perpetrators reported having bullied
or been bullied. The study also underscores the huge divide between
South Africa's liberal constitution, which enshrines the rights of
women and children, and "the realities of a society where poverty,
inequality and violence are rife."
Gender advocates say that the 2006 rape trial of prominent politician
Jacob Zuma was incredibly damaging to their cause. Zuma, who was
elected President this year, was tried and acquitted of raping an HIV-
positive family friend. He told the court that the woman had dressed
provocatively, in a traditional wrap-around kanga, and that it was
against Zulu culture for a man to leave a sexually aroused woman
unsatisfied. (See a profile of South African president Jacob Zuma.)
Zuma's plainspoken views as a polygamist and a traditionalist appeal
to many men who feel adrift in a society that defines men by the
material trappings they attain, says Aernout Zevenbergen, author of
Spots of a Leopard, a book on masculinity in Africa that is soon to be
released in English. "Rape is a signal of a society that is sick to
the core," Zevenbergen says. He points to South Africa's long history
of migrant labor, in which men left home to work in the mines, as
having broken apart generations of families. This system set the
stage, he says, "for an epidemic of young men who, in the absence of
positive male role models, are now consumed by a sense of anger and
entitlement."
"What we have are the wounds of men creating wounds in women, creating
wounds in children," says Zevenbergen. "Who is going to stop the
vicious circle?"

 
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1906000,00.html
come si stava meglio quando c'erano i mulini bianchi e i negher nei
bantustan, eh? Essù, ammettilo. Del resto sei cittadino dell'unico
stato al mondo che non ha mai rotto i rapporti commerciali con quella
feccia lì