Since the end of Apartheid, crime has exploded in South Africa, including rape. In this article at Taki’s Magazine Hannes Wessels brings us some of the unfortunate details of the collapse of South Africa into crime infested anarchy. For example, of every 625 rapes, only one results in a successful prosecution of the perpetrator. It is indeed a sad story.
In South Africa youths jokingly refer to gang rape as “jackrolling,” and the poor Sowetan girl savaged in this incident was known as “Jackpot.” Retarded and in her teens, she was allegedly raped repeatedly by at least seven men between the ages of 14 and 20. Mental-health organizations say the mentally impaired are vulnerable because they are unable to make a cogent report to the authorities.
It was not long ago that Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s jocular president (he has just taken his fourth wife) was on trial for rape and the country’s public was availed of all the lurid details. The gist was that a young girl found herself exposed and defenseless in a strange home when the future president demanded sexual relief. After a lengthy trial that included Zuma’s revelation that he once showered after having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman, Zuma was acquitted.
