Times Of Swaziland: SD RATED AS WORLD’S 4TH HIGHEST IN RAPE

SD RATED AS WORLD’S 4TH HIGHEST IN RAPE
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 BY PHEPHILE MOTAU on 20/08/2015 02:47:00


MBABANE – Swaziland has been rated as the country with the fourth highest rape
rate in the world.
The ratings were done by an American online forum, ABCNewspoint. They claimed
that they considered the latest rape statistics all over the world. The forum
made the list of the top 10 countries with rape cases. It described rape as
forced sexual intercourse, which included psychological coercion as well as
physical force. It was stated that while it also contained homosexual and
heterosexual survivors, most of the survivors were females who have been
forcibly penetrated by any individual or group of men.
Neighbouring South Africa was said to have the highest rape cases in the world
followed by Botswana and Lesotho.
“The sovereign state in Southern Africa, Swaziland, is another country among
those which have highest rape crime all over the world. The latest statistics
showed that the crime rates including violent and non-violent crimes increased
in the country in the past few years and the most reported cases are residential
burglary and non-residential petit theft,” the report stated.
It was stated that rape cases were also common in this region and registered
cases were 77.5 among 100 000 people, which was high as compared to other
countries.
South Africa, Botswana and Lesotho are said to have 132.4, 92.9 and 87.2 rape
cases per 100 000 citizens, respectively.
“Crimes are more common in the country and statistics revealed that it had a
very high rate of murders, assaults, rapes and other crimes contrary to most of
the other countries like the rape incidents are nearly 132.4 per 100 000
citizens, which is quite higher,” the report stated about South Africa.