1. South Africa’s murder rate is five times the world average. The world’s average rate is six people per 100 000. With 17 805 (an increase of 4.6%) murders in the past year, South Africa’s rate stands at 33 per 100 000 people – 5.5 times more than the global average.

2.Nearly 50 Murders Are Commited each day in South Africa.

3. It is estimated that 500,000 women are raped each year in South Africa.

4. If you are a woman, Its more likely for you to be raped than complete secondary school in south Africa.

5. A survey found 1 in 4 south african men admitted to raping someone.

6. In Another Survey, 1 in 3 women admitted to being raped in the past year.

7. Rapes are also perpetrated by children as young as ten.

A street sign in South Africa, appealing to adults not to rape virgin children in the belief that it will cure them of AIDS.

8. An estimated of 100,000 rape cases take place in the country every year.

9. While women's groups in South Africa estimate that a woman is raped every 26 seconds, the South African police estimates that a woman is raped every 36 seconds.

10. Nearly three out of four men who admitted rape stated they had first forced a woman or girl into sex before the age of 20, and nearly one in ten admitted to doing so before the age of 10.

11. It is estimated that over 40% of South African women will be raped in their lifetime and that only 1 in 4 rapes are reported.

12.. South africa is also known as the "the rape capital" of the world

13. Most rapes are not always against women, 3.5% of men in south Africa have been forced to have sex with other men.

14. Skull mining is a big business in Nigeria.

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14. A woman being raped over the age of 25 has a one in four chance that her attacker is HIV positive and more women than men are affected from
HIV/AIDS.

15. It is reported that a husband or boyfriend kills a woman every six hours in South Africa.

16. According to South Africa’s Tears Foundation and the Medical Research Council, 50% of South Africa’s children will be abused before the age of 18.

17. Boko haram is the economic brand of northern Nigeria.

17. A 9-month-old girl named Tshepang was raped by an HIV-positive man and had to undergo extensive
reconstructive surgery in Cape Town .

An 8-month-old infant was reportedly gang raped by four men. One has been charged. The infant has required extensive reconstructive surgery. The 8-month-old infant's injuries were so extensive, increased attention on prosecution has occurred.

18. More than 10 lesbians per week are raped or gang-raped in Cape Town alone.