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[mynah]

One of my cousins was a policeman in Soweto, but eventually had to be boarded and received counseling for post traumatic stress syndrome. He said one of the things that really got to him was the high incidence of child rape: In one particularly bad area girls usually lost their virginity before they could walk. In a recent survey, some 15 percent of South African school kids said that they have been raped. Unfortunately, only about one in 200 rapes in this country ever leads to a conviction. Although I'm concerned about it, I'm not surprised at the large number of South Africans who are turning to unorthodox means of dealing with crime.