South Africans called to arms over raped teenager

February 08, 2013

The chime sounds every four minutes on the radio station, reminding listeners that statistically yet another child or woman in South Africa is being raped. It's also a call to arms for citizens outraged over the gang-rape of a teenager who had her body carved open and was left for dead on a construction site.

While India agonises with its high prevalence of rape because of a fatal attack on a young woman on a bus, South Africans are now becoming galvanised by the attack on the teenager in a small town. Civil society and governments in both countries are saying this must stop.