- SOUTH AFRICA - An anti-rape
device which chops off the tip of a rapist's penis has been invented by
a retired anaesthetist in the Free State, South Africa.
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- Jaap Haumann, 72, who now farms near the small town of
Clocolan, has designed a "mutilator tampon" designed to lop off
the end of a rapist's penis.
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- Dr Haumann's extraordinary invention was prompted by
the fact that rape has become so endemic in South Africa that a rape now
is being reported every 26 seconds to police. Dr Haumann said he designed
the device after speaking to rape victims -- and said he believed that
at least a million South African women would flock to buy it.
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- "It became clear to me that rape has a devastating
impact on the lives of women, physically and especially mentally."
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- He said in one instance, a rape victim had refused to
leave her house, even nine months after she was raped. Her friends did
her shopping for her.
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- "We all know that South Africa has the highest rape
statistics in the world. With this device I believe would-be rapists would
think twice before attacking any woman in this country."
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- Dr Haumann said the device is designed to be used in
the same way as a tampon. "I designed a hard cylindrical plastic core
which contains the spring blade, which slices when pressed against.
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- "This plastic core is covered by soft material,
the same as a real tampon. This is then inserted by the woman. When the
rapist attacks the woman and penetration takes place, the point of his
penis will touch the section containing the blade and it (the penis), or
at least a part of it, is sliced off."
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- Speaking of the danger of HIV infection from a bleeding
rapist, Dr Haumann said because rape was a violent crime, the danger of
infection from semen was high in any event.
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- Many South African women already habitually carry antiretroviral
medication with them to prevent HIV-transfer in case they got raped.
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- "But when a woman wears this device she would not
resist and would not be damaged internally. So the chances of being infected
by the blood from the rapist are, indeed, also less."
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- Dr Haumann said the deterrent value of the device would
be immense.
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- "And this is really the idea. If this device makes
rapists think twice about attacking women, we have already achieved something."
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- But some women approached for comment, found the idea
of carrying such a "tampon timebomb" absurd.
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- "I would be extremely uncomfortable. Again the onus
is put on the woman. Men who rape women should be jailed for life. Men
should not rape, end of story," said one.
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- Dr Haumann said the device was still in the design stage.
"It would cost about R10 to manufacture one such device and I estimate
at least a million South African women would wear it," he said
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- 14 Year Old Afrikaner Girl Raped By Gang Of
Blacks
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- By Jack Galt
jackgalt@hotmail.com
11-17-01
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- PRETORIA -The 14-year old
Afrikaner girl who was cruelly raped this week by a gang of five blacks
in her parental home in Pretoria, has been traumatised for the rest of
her life.
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- This was said by Rev. Barbara Louw of the organisation
Inter-Trauma Nexus (ITN) this week The organsiation provides psychological
councelling to the family and to the SA Policemen who also had to receive
urgent psychiatric counselling after investigating the crime scene Tuesday.
Hundreds of irate South Africans have been flooding the news media ever
since with angry accusations that this crime had been a deliberately racist
attack to terrorise the entire Afrikaner community.
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- The child was discharged from a Pretoria hospital after
her cruel ordeal, during which she was gang-raped by five men in the bathroom
of her parental home.
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- "It is terrible what happened to this girl. Her
virginity was cruelly destroyed and at the age of 14, a person still seeks
for one's identity," said rev. Louw.
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- The police yesterday drew up identikit pictures of the
five suspects, and these are being released today, said.insp. Gideon Thessner,
polisiewoordvoerder in Pretoria.
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- Irate callers to the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld said this
rape and the attack on this entire Afrikaner family is a cruel, barbaric
attack against a family who belongs to a specific group in society. It
was a deliberately racist attack," one reader told Beeld.
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- The five rapists gained access to the house by climbing
across a 2-meter high wall and tearing out the burglar bars in a window
of the house.
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- The heavily-armed men invaded the house, tied up the
mother, father, six-year-old sister and ten-year-old brother with barbed
wire in the living room.
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- They then took the 14-year-old Afrikaans girl into the
bathroom where they gangraped her.After this, the girl's father was beaten
and kicked in his face while still tied up.
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- The gang then ransacked the family home and fled with
the family car, which was later found abandoned in nearby Tembisa.
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- Thessner said the badly traumatised family has immediate
out of the home and moved in with family in Pretoria. The police unit for
child protection and sexual offences is investigating the crime.
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- Female Tourists Warned To Pack AIDS-Rape Drugs Before
Travelling To SA
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- LONDON - Doctors in America
and England are advising women travelling to South Africa and the rest
of the continent to pack anti-Aids drugs in their luggage because of the
high incidence of the disease and rape. Similar advice is being given to
South Africans travelling to other African countries.
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- In South Africa, a rape is reported every 23 seconds
-- and of those reported rapes, a small child is raped every thirty minutes.
This is due to the widespread belief among black residents that Aids can
be cured by raping young virgins.
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- In the September edition of a British security magazine,
Intersec, an article dealing with the Aids threat to the country and female
tourists states: "The high number of reported rapes in the country
is already a deterrent for prospective visitors -- and the South African
government's decision not to provide AZT to victims of rape means they
are unlikely to get the drugs at local clinics."
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- Dr Andrew Jamieson, the medical director of the British
Airways Travel Clinic, said the academic travel medicine community had
discussed the issue for a number of years.
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- "About six months ago, it was decided that this
would be a reasonable thing to do ... it's all about risk management. There
is a real risk for travellers to this country and other countries in Africa.
We do have a high HIV rate and a high incidence of rape so we cannot pretend
it is not there," he said.
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- Dr Jamieson said doctors at travel clinics were targeting
"high risk" people - women travelling alone, medical students
and people working for aid organisations in rural areas.
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- "South Africa in particular attracts adventure tourists.
We probably wouldn't offer it to a granny on a tour bus, but the young
backpacker would be at substantial risk."
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- The drug comes at a high price. In SA it costs between
R1 000 and R2 000. In England and the US it is more expensive. And yet,
Dr Jamieson said, the availability of the drug through the travel clinics
had, to some extent, been consumer-driven with travellers feeling safer
knowing they had their own supply if they needed it.
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- While there are fears that the advice offered by the
clinics could deter tourists from coming to South Africa and "create
unnecessary paranoia," the risks are already well-documented.
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- Moss Mashishi, the CEO of South African Tourism, said
he believed the situation had been "overstated".
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- "Sensationalised reports about the threat of HIV
to foreigners visiting South Africa negates the hard work the tourism sector
is putting in to ensure tourist safety.
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- "Satour has had no official notification regarding
the contraction of HIV by foreign visitors to South Africa under the circumstances
referred to. All tourism authorities make a concerted effort to educate
and inform foreign visitors of high-risk areas in the country."
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- A Child Is Raped Every 30 Minutes In SA
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- JOHANNESBURG - Every 30 minutes
a child is raped in South Africa. Official police and child welfare agency
statistics show that police deal with more than 40 000 cases of all forms
of crime against children a year. This was revealed by Jackie Loffell of
the Johannesburg Child Welfare Society at the 13th International Congress
on Child Abuse and Neglect in Durban.
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- Loffell has challenged South Africa -- as a signatory
of the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child -- to uphold
the full range of children's rights.
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- Two Men Suspected Of 53 Rapes/Murder At
Orange Farm Region
By James Manyapelo
1-22-2
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- JOHANNESBURG - Witnesses
are asked to come forward to help convict two arrested serial killers-rapists
whom police believe are responsible for at least 53 murders of mostly women
and children, found raped and mutilated in the Orange Farm and Nasrec region
since 1995. Police have appealed to the public to help identify five Indian
victims of the mass murders who are still in the local morgues.
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- Police arrested Lazarus Mazikane and Kaizer Motshegwa,
both 27, in July for unrelated cases, and later established that they were
also involved in 53 murders since 1995 in what police said may prove to
be the country's worst serial killings. If convicted, the two men would
go on record as the country's youngest serial killers-- as the started
in 1995 when they were both 22. Mazikane is a convicted rapist serving
a 30 year sentence, while Motshegwa is awaiting trial on other, unrelated
cases.
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- The police are seeking help in identifying four women
and a child - suspected to be Indian and allegedly from Lenasia - which
are not included in the 53 murders already counted.
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- Investigating officer in the case Piet Byleveld says
that "the body count of the alleged killers may be even higher, there
is a strong possibility that more cases will be added".
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- Byleveld said that the methods used in the cases of these
murders were similar, "It seems to us that the victims were raped
before being strangled to death." Some victims had parts of their
bodies chopped off.
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- The police also believe that some of the murders resulted
from hijackings. "Some may have been followed from their workplaces
to the open veld. "We also believe that most of the victims were from
Soweto in Diepkloof, Orlando, Jabulani since most of the bodies were discovered
in Maraisburg, Naturena, and the industrial Nasrec area in southern Johannesburg
including Soweto," police spokesperson Henriette Bester added.
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- Byleveld said that it was very unusual to have accomplices
in serial murder cases "which is why we had to work so hard to finally
establish a link between the killings".
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- He said that he would be glad to see the case over by
next year if only people could come forward with information, "At
the moment we have 40 eye-witnesses but the problem has always been that
they often disappear."
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- Byleveld, who was recently promoted to the rank of superintendent,
has a very good record in investigating serial killings.
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- Byleveld successfully investigated the Wemmer Pan and
Hammer serial killings that involved Cedric Maake who was sentenced to
1 340 years in prison in March this year for 27 murders he was convicted
of committing in and around Johannesburg.
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- He also arrested Moses Sithole who killed 45 women in
his murder counts. Byleveld also dealt with the Kranskop serial killer
Bongani Mseka who murdered 11 people.
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- The Hideous Rape And Murder Of A 14 Year Cape
Town Girl
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- CAPE TOWN - One of the four
gang members accused of repeatedly raping and murdering 14-year old Cape
Flats girl Shahieda Valencia Farmer, claims that gang members had ordered
him to confess to the child's murder and he had then made a confession
to a magsitrate, but had not actually murdered her. He had however raped
her, although he believed she had already been dead at the time.
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- Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, councillor for the 16-year-old
accused rapist-murderer, said he had been ordered to take the blame by
gang members Keevin and Freddie" -- who threatened to kill him and
his mother, minutes before he was arrested. The threats were made in front
of the police who arrested him and the youth believed police would not
protect him. .
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- Another witness Mr Franklin Roberts, 20, a known gang
member, testified that Valencia had already been dead by the time he had
been called to the derilict house where she had been kept imprisoned as
a sex slave.
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- He cited gang member named Bekkies as saying a "woman"
was inside the derelict house, and when they went to look, they found the
girl, apparently already dead. Me and three other gang members -- Elmario
Maasdorp, Glenville (Bekkies), Faro and the accused then raped her again.
She had been raped repeatedly before that by many members of the gang.
The others then accused me of having murdered her, but I do not have any
knowledge about who actually killed her," Roberts testified.
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- However, at this point, Valencia had not yet been dead.The
severely injured and traumatised girl was eventually found by a search
party and taken to hospital, where her life could no longer be saved. During
the child's long, brutal rape ordeal, she had been been stabbed more than
fourty times and had been left to die with her her throat cut.
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- Cape Town Mayor Axed Over Child Porn
9-12-01
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- CAPE TOWN - The mayor of
the Cape Metropolitan Council, William Bantom, has been forced to quit
the New National Party after he was caught down-loading pornography from
the Internet and watching pornographic videos at the City Council's office.
He was caught by officials while viewing children and adults engaged in
sexual activity.
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- Bantom's resignation comes a day after New National Party
leader and Democratic Alliance deputy chief Marthinus van Schalkwyk had
backed calls for a register of sex offenders to be instituted.
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- Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel told a news conference
on Tuesday that he had asked Bantom for his resignation after the mayor
was caught by council officials dabbling with pornography for a second
time last week at the council offices -- despite an earlier warning.
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- "Nobody is going to support him any more. His own
members of council will put pressure on him to resign (as mayor),"
Koole said. Bantom is also a highly respected church minister.
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- Morkel had first been informed last year that Bantom
had visited a number of pornographic sites on computers at the Council
offices. "Initially, he said that he required the information for
a thesis on which he was working but when I pressed him, he broke down
and promised it would never happen again."
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- Bantom was given a second chance -- but had been warned
that if there was any repetition he would insist on his resignation from
the NNP.
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- For almost a year after the first event, there had been
no indications Bantom was involved in pornography of any kind while at
the Council offices. But at the end of last week, he learned that Bantom
had been playing adult pornographic videos in his office again.
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- Bantom had been discovered watching the videos when "someone
went to his office to see cricket". "I demanded his resignation
from the NNP with immediate effect."
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- Morkel said since Bantom had not ceased his pornographic
activities, he clearly was not fit to be a candidate in the coming municipal
election. His penchant for pornography was also known to several officials
within the council.
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- When people viewed pornographic material in their own
home it was their business but when this was done on state or council property,
"I draw the line," Morkel said.
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- Cape Town has become known among the international sex
tourism trade as the "sleaze capital of the world". It has become
targetted particularly by child-sex merchants, who organise child-sex tours
for paedophiles to South Africa's Mother City.
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- "Child-sex" is of course, a kinder way of describing
raping the defenceless. Thousands of children are now working as prostitutes
in the Cape Town area and child protection agencies recently warned that
a lurid child-slavery trade has been uncovered with Aids orphans from the
entire Southern African region, who are being smuggled by international
criminal gangs to brothels as far away as Thailand.
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- Comment
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- From Charlette LeFevre
1-25-2
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- As well as the intentions may be (and disregarding the
sensationalism of the story which seems reactionary to a weak justice system
and social structure), this story seems worded to make not only every
male cring but every woman over a device that hasn't even been developed
yet!
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- For health and liability reasons this device would not
fly.
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- 1. Pastic inserts have long been known to harbor bacteria
resulting in toxic shock syndrom.
- 2. The liability alone of inserting this device the wrong
way or even removing after it has been activated with sharp blades....well,
that should be obvious. The woman is likely to receive injuries equatable
if not more than the man.
- 3. This device works only after the fact of violation.
- 4. After mutilation, this device places the woman more
in a position of retaliation to be killed.
- 5. A non-visable weapon cannot effectively be called
a deterrant.
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- Cmon.
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- Not surprised this invention was thought up by a man.
Would think that less dangerous forms of defense women can use such as
kick boxing or pepper spray would work just as well if not better in deterring
attacks.
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- Charlette LeFevre
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