A gang rape of eight women in a mine horrifies South Africa
Workers at a mine in Westonaria, South Africa (illustrative image) REUTERS / Mike Hutchings
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Eight women were repeatedly raped while participating in the filming of a clip, Thursday, July 28, in the suburbs of Johannesburg.
Already criticized for their inability to fight crime, this new tragedy plunges the authorities into embarrassment.
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With our correspondent in Johannesburg,
Romain Chanson
Another massive crime in South Africa.
The facts took place near a disused mine in Krugersdorp, in the eastern suburbs of Johannesburg, where a team of 22 people was filming a video clip.
Ten men, illegal miners with hooded faces, then stopped their work to attack the team.
“
As they tried to flee, they shot at them.
They forced them to undress and started to rape them.
Eight women were raped.
They were between 19 and 35 years old
, ”detailed the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele.
This new case comes just three weeks after the shooting that killed 16 people in a popular bar in Soweto.
Is there a link between all these crimes, the journalists asked the Minister of Police?
"
The only thing they have in common is that they instill fear in South Africans
," he replied.
Busy to open a conference of his party, the ANC, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke of this rampant criminality: "
Throughout the country, people live in fear, frightened by gangsters, armed robberies, rapes and murders.
Women and children are the most vulnerable to this violence committed by men against them.
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In the first quarter of this year, more than 10,000 people were raped in South Africa.
After the home, public places are the areas most affected by rape.
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