Johannesburg: A new research report shows that 78 percent of South African man ever admit to doing some act of violence against women including rape, as reported by Al Jazeera website on Monday (13/12).
This research stems from a case that revealed about a South African woman named Gugu Mofokeng who leave the shelter for a year to hide from an abusive ex-boyfriend and he continued to be hunted for days by her ex was up to endless torture again in front of his house.
Mofokeng story is indeed shocking, but in South Africa is very ordinary criminal incident occurs. Gender activists have long argued that violence against women in this country in epidemic proportions. And although the introduction of some legislation and the establishment of a commission for gender equality has been done, now lives made several improvements to uphold justice.
A study in 2009 and then conducted by the Medical Research Council (MCR) has shocked the world. The results revealed that one in four men in the coastal province of Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal has claimed to have committed rape. But the latest report by Gauteng Gender Violence Indicators Pilot Project, which was released to coincide with the 16-day international activism against gender violence, suggesting the situation may be worse than before.
This research was conducted in 1,000 homes in Gauteng, South Africa's most populated province, which includes Johannesburg and Pretoria. The study found that 78.3 percent of men admitted to practice some form of violence, emotional, physical, and sexual violence against women.
An initiative by the MRC joint NGO organization Gender Links, this study also conducted in-depth interviews with men and women.
Twenty-five percent of women interviewed said they had experienced some form of sexual violence, but only 3.9 percent of crimes reported to police. One in 13 women surveyed said they had been raped by her boyfriend instead. Of the many incidents of violence, the comparison is only one in 25 rape cases have been reported to the police.
From the people who already interviewed, 37.4 percent admitted committing sexual violence at least once. According to official statistics there are 68,332 South African police reported sexual offenses between March 2009 and March 2010, down from 70,514 cases in the previous year.
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