clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

South Africa has one of the world's highest levels of reported rape.

For each of the 54,000 rapes reported to the police each year, another nine are not

What can explain half a million rapes a year?

Ms Jewkes argues that the country has been "severely traumatised" by the intense violence of apartheid and the explosive pace of social change since its demise.

Added to this, "apartheid destroyed family life".

The pass law system that put men in urban hostels and kept families fatherless in the countryside left a gigantic legacy of hurt and abuse.

The problems of sexual violence, like the problems of apartheid, will have to be solved by South Africans together.