South Africa arrests 120+ in gang rape probe as gender violence crisis deepens

Eight women were gang raped during a music video shoot; the attack reflects broader patterns of sexual violence affecting women's safety and freedom in South Africa.

In the hills outside Krugersdorp, eight women were raped at gunpoint during a music video shoot at an abandoned mine — an act of violence that has become both a criminal investigation and a mirror held up to South Africa's enduring crisis of gender-based violence. More than 120 men have been arrested, yet the machinery of justice moves slowly: DNA tests are still needed, charges of rape have not yet been filed, and conviction rates nationally sit at a devastating eight-point-six percent. The country's leaders have spoken in the language of outrage, but women's rights advocates remind us that w

South Africa arrests 120+ in gang rape probe as gender violence crisis deepens

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