Comments on: The lady’s not for burning http://credomutwa.com/2007/05/the-ladys-not-for-burning/ South African Traditional Healer, Sanusi, Sangoma Wisdom Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:56:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BoypetotVen http://credomutwa.com/2007/05/the-ladys-not-for-burning/comment-page-1/#comment-6198 BoypetotVen Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:52:51 +0000 http://credomutwa.com/the-ladys-not-for-burning/#comment-6198 I read some of the posts and I think it is a great place! Are you encouraging my gigantic classroom Good joke :) What goes black and white, black and white, black and white, boom? A nun falling down the stairs. I read some of the posts and I think it is a great place! Are you encouraging my gigantic classroom Good joke :) What goes black and white, black and white, black and white, boom? A nun falling down the stairs.

]]> By: Mduduzi Dlamini http://credomutwa.com/2007/05/the-ladys-not-for-burning/comment-page-1/#comment-3318 Mduduzi Dlamini Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:40:13 +0000 http://credomutwa.com/the-ladys-not-for-burning/#comment-3318 It is very difficult to question the reporting of rape in the country without appearing as if one is condoning the sexual violation of dignity of women, indeed of family dignity and integrity. However, too much facile statistics that are not given proper balance by reporters find their way into mass consumption via the mass media. Indeed, sometimes I do think that there should be strigent conditions of reporting around rape. For it would be apparent that rape, unlike murder or robbery, there often is no immediate appearance of the crime. It takes an expert like doctors and lawyers and judges to establish the credible evidence of criminal act of rape having taken place. So for reporters unskilled in law, medicine and jurisprudence it seems presumptuous to circualte unvalidated allegations around rape. Even the police are on the same foot as reporters when it comes to rape, or indeed any criminal act - that is why it has to go to court to prove the culpability of lack of thereof. The stats on rape quoted by Gewn Ansell, the respected arts journalist, which are normally also cited by women lobby groups are raw, untested stats, that is, these are mere cases reported with the police at police stations i.e. it is not rape acts that have been proven in court. I haven't personally seen stats on rape convictions from the justice ministry, perhaps it would be better if we compell the justice ministry to9 relase convictioin stats on all types of cases rather than relying on cases reported with the police that were still to go to court. However, one women lobby group member, who was speaking on rape cases around the same time that then ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma was trial for alleged rape, was quoted on Independent Newspapers saying that there is 7% conviction rate on rape cases. Now this should give anyone with any reasonable modicum of scepticism and reasonableness pause for thought: 7% convinction rate! That means 93% of all reported rape cases are priven false and non-existent. It should give anyone some cause for scepticism whenever someone screams rape. The proper and sensible thing to do is to wait until the matter goes to court. 93% failure rate of conviction of rape cases is by any description showing that rape cry maybe another hue and cry. There is not even, according to this reported quote, some middle ground of conviction. So it would be proper when citing statistics shwoing that there is about 140 rapes per day reported with police (SAPS Crime Statistics 2007), something in the region of 50 000 last year (2007), then to qualify such reporting with conviction Justice rate of 7% or any that obtains that particular year. Otherwise, one is apt to think that this reporting around rape is not meant to inform so that society takes proper action but to cause alarm and serve certain agendas of women lobby groups, deliberate tarnishing of South African society and the country itself. It is very difficult to question the reporting of rape in the country without appearing as if one is condoning the sexual violation of dignity of women, indeed of family dignity and integrity. However, too much facile statistics that are not given proper balance by reporters find their way into mass consumption via the mass media.

Indeed, sometimes I do think that there should be strigent conditions of reporting around rape. For it would be apparent that rape, unlike murder or robbery, there often is no immediate appearance of the crime. It takes an expert like doctors and lawyers and judges to establish the credible evidence of criminal act of rape having taken place. So for reporters unskilled in law, medicine and jurisprudence it seems presumptuous to circualte unvalidated allegations around rape. Even the police are on the same foot as reporters when it comes to rape, or indeed any criminal act – that is why it has to go to court to prove the culpability of lack of thereof.

The stats on rape quoted by Gewn Ansell, the respected arts journalist, which are normally also cited by women lobby groups are raw, untested stats, that is, these are mere cases reported with the police at police stations i.e. it is not rape acts that have been proven in court. I haven’t personally seen stats on rape convictions from the justice ministry, perhaps it would be better if we compell the justice ministry to9 relase convictioin stats on all types of cases rather than relying on cases reported with the police that were still to go to court. However, one women lobby group member, who was speaking on rape cases around the same time that then ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma was trial for alleged rape, was quoted on Independent Newspapers saying that there is 7% conviction rate on rape cases.

Now this should give anyone with any reasonable modicum of scepticism and reasonableness pause for thought: 7% convinction rate! That means 93% of all reported rape cases are priven false and non-existent. It should give anyone some cause for scepticism whenever someone screams rape. The proper and sensible thing to do is to wait until the matter goes to court. 93% failure rate of conviction of rape cases is by any description showing that rape cry maybe another hue and cry. There is not even, according to this reported quote, some middle ground of conviction.

So it would be proper when citing statistics shwoing that there is about 140 rapes per day reported with police (SAPS Crime Statistics 2007), something in the region of 50 000 last year (2007), then to qualify such reporting with conviction Justice rate of 7% or any that obtains that particular year. Otherwise, one is apt to think that this reporting around rape is not meant to inform so that society takes proper action but to cause alarm and serve certain agendas of women lobby groups, deliberate tarnishing of South African society and the country itself.

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