[This is truly shocking. Rape offenders are themselves also becoming younger.

What I do love is how, after they have analysed the problem, they then try to twist it and blame it on Apartheid! Kindly note, under Apartheid, things were never like this. I love this twisted logic. I don”t see one ounce of hard evidence to actually support this completely twisted logic.

Yet, every problem this country has is written off as a “Legacy of Apartheid” even if it did not happen under Apartheid – yet somehow, by some magic, Apartheid was responsible for triggering problems, long after it disappeared.

But this twisted, sick logic does not work with me. In my book, Government by Deception (2001), I wrote that I saw the same pattern with Mugabe. Everything in Zimbabwe is caused by “Colonialism” – long after the British have gone, long after Colonialism died, long after the Whites left – somehow, they always manage to BLAME IT ON THOSE DAMNED WHITE PEOPLE!!

Pox on them! Its all a load of rubbish. Its pure propaganda. They”re always trying to deflect the blame from their own failures. Who was it, who created all these lax laws which unleashed a wave of crime the likes of which this country has never known? It was them!

In my book, I said that they would continue to blame us Whites decades after we are dead and gone. Even if they were to rule for 100 or a 1000 years, they would still find some way of blaming the future problems on us – even when there was no logical reason or connection for it. Its despicable. May they burn in hell for thinking up these hideous lies. Jan]

About 50 children per day are raped in South Africa as the country struggles with the legacy of apartheid, HIV/Aids and an influx of sexual material into a society which remains somewhat puritanical.

That is according to the official figures, which specialist groups say grossly underestimate the true scale of the phenomenon depicted in police reports.

Regular police reports recount girls as young as five being raped, sometimes by boys who are barely in their teens.

South Africa is notorious for the number of rape cases and, according to Captain Percy Morokane, about 40% of the victims, or 20 000 a year, are under the age of 18.

But according to organisations such as Rape Crisis, the total of all rapes reported, more than 52 000 a year, is far from the real figure which they put at more than a million.

Luke Oambrecht, head of the Teddy Bear Clinic, part of Johannesburg”s hospital service which treats young rape victims, says that 91% of perpetrators are people who know the child.

Of them, “about 20% are people acting in the capacity of father in other words, the mother”s boyfriend, the mother”s living partner, the stepfather, the biological father.

“And another 20% are juveniles under 18 years old, other children, which is another worry.”

“We have younger and younger offenders,” Oambrecht added.

“We have heard of seven-year-old boys who have attempted to sodomise other boys.”

Oambrecht said one explanation was the country”s violent past under the puritanical and repressive apartheid regime of white minority rule, coupled with the rush of sexually explicit material that followed its demise in 1994.

Parents are embarrassed to talk about sex to their children, who do not understand why they cannot practise what they see, he added, while the HIV/Aids pandemic, affecting one adult in five in South Africa, links sex with death, an even more taboo subject.

Other factors are the crowded housing conditions of many poorer people, living in one-roomed shacks of corrugated iron and cardboard, where violence and sexual promiscuity are common.

Social worker Linda Smith commented, “Children are sexualised far earlier because of the lack of boundaries and poor living conditions, being exposed to sexual activities and family violence.”

“People all live on top of one another, there is a lot of sexual abuse,” Oambrecht said, adding that another big issue was poor maternal care.

Pediatrician Lorna Jacklin, one of the founders of the Teddy Bear Clinic, agreed, saying that “the only way to protect the children is educating the mothers.”

A typical mother is “a very young woman who has no skills, no resources, living in isolation, so disempowered that she is not able to protect her child generally,” Jacklin said.

“The level of education of men is important too,” rejoined Oambrecht. “If they take care of their children, they are less likely to hurt them.

“But our country is still very traditional, very few men are able to take on that role and violence is still a way of solving the problems, whatever they are.” – Sapa

Source: Daily Mail & Guardian
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