SA lets act against Rape
By Thabo Sebe
I sometime wonder if we South Africans have conceded to
this Bubonic plague called RAPE that is tearing our country apart, statistics
speak for themselves but there is no action taken to curb this pandemic in our
communities.
Every time a woman or child is raped we only hear that
the police are investigating and after that we hear nothing with the exception
of for the minority cases they end up cracking. It seems communities,
government and the police have given up on this pandemic or they just don’t
care.
Indians showed the world that they have had enough by
tackling head-on the rape of the student who was gang raped late last year,
until the police and the justice department took action which was rare in that
country before that case.
Women are raped hourly in our country but the
perpetrators are freely roaming the streets freely, knowing that no one will
hunt them down and teach them a lesson for their barbaric actions. Even our
media is not giving enough coverage on this plague that is obliterating our
country.
If we don’t act now, I fear that we might have a bigger
predicament to solve in the near future. Our government should act quicker and
harder on these perpetrators and also have road shows in shebeens, schools,
taxi ranks and bus terminals warning would be rapists that if one commits this
abhorrence crime they will be severely punished.
Communities don’t care for their neighbours and their
fellow sister anymore; they ignore each other these days and even have the
audacity to hide criminals in their home. I say let us act against this horrendous
criminals before it is too late.
What grabbed my attention was “a teenager from KZN who wanted
to build a brighter future for herself, and went to the Tshwane University of
Technology in the wee hours of the morning to pay registration fees and was
raped and robbed near the institution of higher learning without anyone hearing
her cries of help.
And on top of that is was very quiet from all quarters of
the country as if nothing had happened, while her future was destroyed before
it could even begin. Grandmothers, women, children as young as 2 months are
raped on a daily basis, even son’s are raping their mothers but we keep quit as
if this is another ordinary part of life, let us start taking serious action,
maybe our government will start taking us seriously as it seems they are only
concerned where there is money (tenders, e-tolls, Nkandla gate, etc). Let us
reclaim our townships, towns, villages and suburbs back before they rule every
part of our lives.
Women are frightened to go out and socialise, learn, live
their lives and even buy basic needs just because of these monsters that have
turned women into animals that must always be locked in cages.
I for one, I swear that I could kill someone who carry
out this atrocious deeds on any woman even though I am not a killer because I
wouldn’t like to happen to any woman bearing in mind that I have a mother,
sisters, cousins and a beautiful daughter.
South African let us unite and destroy this monster
called rape, if Indians can fight these even though they are ruled with
draconian laws that doesn’t women. Why are we terrified?
Let us reclaim our streets, so that our mother, wives,
sisters and daughters can roam the streets as they want. We are all born free.
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Nice Work! You have my agreement and support @rantingblackman
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