Gang rape video goes viral, shocking South Africa

AFP ^ | April 18, 2012

[Free ThinkerNY]

A video of a 17-year-old girl being gang raped spread by cell phones through South Africa on Wednesday, shocking a nation battling an epidemic of violence against women.

The girl was reported missing in late March and was apparently raped last week in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, police said.

Reporters from the tabloid Daily Sun brought the video to the attention of police, who found the girl on Wednesday and began arresting suspects.

"She was found with another man in his house," Warrant Officer Kay Makhubele told the Sapa news agency.

"Obviously she is traumatised and we are going to take her to the doctor now," he said.

The girl has the mental capacity of a four-year-old, according to the Eyewitness News website.

Watching the video is a crime under South Africa's child pornography law.

The Star newspaper reported online that the video lasts 10 minutes and 33 seconds, showing her being raped by seven different males, as she screams: "You are forcing me, you are forcing me."

The video's spread has forced South Africa to confront its staggering incidence of rape. More than 56,000 cases were reported to police last year.

[sjmjax]

I think it will only be a few generations from now, maybe less, before much of Africa loses the technology to make fire.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

This was obtained through google News. I guess it's for real.

Techno-Gizmos for the Elimination of Rape

"The “Rape Capital of the World” is currently South Africa, with a University of South Africa study estimating 2,777 rapes per day, for a total of 1 million a year. The South African Law Commission asserts the figure is considerably higher: 1.69 million per year. Journalist, rape survivor, and anti-rape activist Charlene Smith claims that a South African woman is raped every 26 seconds; 40% of the victims are children, and 65% are gang-raped, aka “jackrolled.” Human Rights Watch reports that 28% of South African males has admitted to sexual assault, in this nation where 16.9% of the adult population is HIV/AIDS infected. To combat this atrocity, the citizenry invented two retaliatory devices. . . . "

The IEET is a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt organization registered in the State of Connecticut in the United States.

As I recall the anti-car jacking devices were also invented in SA . . . .

[GOPJ]

Yeah, if they could only figure out how to keep the power on without having to pay whites to do the jobs.

They have to have whites grow the food too ...

[Enten]

We keep forgetting....all cultures are equal.

[jonascord]

Pick up the movie "Blood Diamond." In the movie, when someone sees something like a million refugees starving to death, child soldiers, slaves mining diamonds to buy ammo and guns, the standard response is "T.I.A." (This Is Africa) as this explains it all.

Men raping infants to cure AIDS. TIA
Gang rape: TIA
Hiring white men to keep the power on: TIA
Trillion pound Zim bank note: TIA
Bob Mugabe in a Singapore hospital, "on vacation.": TIA

TIA, man...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

IIRC, Soweto is a Black township near Johannesburg that experienced a massacre by White forces during the Apartheid era.

[ichabod1]

yeah, but these tribes, they had no culture at all. Just living in filth like feral animals.

[forgotten man]

Sounds like a great place to bring your daughters for vacation. Oh wait, Moochelle 0bama already did that.

[Joe 6-pack]

"You really have to wonder why any Caucasian people remain in this country."

[Longbow1969]

It's kinda hard to leave seeing as they were born there. Where would they go? I have South African friends both black and white. A lot of the whites work overseas because they cannot get jobs there.

Same place everyone else goes I guess, to the US, Europe or Canada. At least 25% of the population here in the West doesn't openly admit to raping women/girls. South Africa is only going to get worse.

[PGalt]

Thanks very much for posting those 2 links, huldah1776. I’ve seen the 2nd one. BTTT!

[Veggie Todd]

Whoopi Goldberg says gang rape isn’t rape rape!

[USAF80]

To combat this atrocity, the citizenry invented two retaliatory devices. . . . "

This was actually in a movie I have. Not this product but the concept. I can't remember the name but it was about a couple stranded on an island and the wife knew she would be raped by the perps. She took a bottle broke it and placed it you know where. It worked.

[USAF80]

South Africans could not come to the US easily for some reason. I met a bunch in the Middle East and Australia.

[airedale]

The girl according to other news reports is from Soweto which means she’s black.

[Ohioan]

The South African Bantu tribes have/had very definite cultures. The problem with a place like Soweto is that it is detribalized--the tribal restraints are gone. It is a glaring example of something that the much maligned "Apartheid" system, was intended to correct. Unfortunately it was not implemented. Put another way, Soweto reflects the triumph of Leftist "idealism," where people are no longer restrained by traditional values.

But see my reply #19, above.

William Flax

[BCW]

This is 2012 - humanity should not be living this way...

I saw alot in Iraq - things that were hidden - come to think about it - the same could be said for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...I often thought to myself that it would be far easier to remove the primary element in these crimes - I’m sure the women and children would greatly appreciate it!

[Godwin1]

Majority Rule was supposed to solve all South Africa’s problem. Go figure.

[Dawgreg]

I’m glad they did away with apartheid but I’m hard-pressed to see that much improvement in South Africa. I’ll just have to find out for myself, eh? I don’t hold much stock in anything Ruth Bader Ginsberg says.

[Sequoyah101]

I guess I should have put a sarcasm note on the posting.