UN women’s group calls for probe into rape and abuse of girls in SA - which is mostly at hands of ‘blessers’‚ it says

08 September 2016 - 21:14
By TMG Digital

The UN Women’s Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) says a commission of inquiry is needed to probe what it calls the “normalisation” of rape and abuse of South African girls. The group called for urgent and systemic action in the wake of reports that more than 2‚000 underage girls in one North West municipality were impregnated‚ mostly by older men.

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