[Shaun]

Please sign this: http://www.change.org/petitions/view...e_a_hate-crime

Earlier this year Millicent Gaika, a 30-year-old South African woman, was tied up, beaten, strangled, tortured and raped for five hours by a man as he screamed that he would “cure” Millicent of her lesbianism.

Ndumie Funda, a local community activist whose lesbian partner was murdered in the course of a similar “corrective rape,” reached out to Millicent through a small local charity she set up to rescue and support survivors of “corrective rape.” But last month they both had to go into hiding after the South African government released the perpetrator they had helped to jail on 60 rand (less than $10) bail.

Ndumie, Millicent and others decided to fight back against the rapists and the lack of accountability for their crimes. From a Cape Town safehouse for survivors of ‘corrective rape,’ the women created a petition on Change.org targeting South African Justice Minister Jeffrey Radebe.

Please, they wrote, declare ‘corrective rape’ a hate crime, which would both empower and require South African police to take a harder line on the vicious crime.

More than 500 “corrective rapes” are reported in South Africa each year, and more than 30 South African lesbians have been murdered because of their sexuality over the past decade. Worse, for every 100 men charged with rape in South Africa, 96 of them walk free.

We can help here. Last year, South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority went on record refusing to formally declare ‘corrective rape’ a hate crime, saying “It is not something that the South African government has prioritized as a specific project.”

But with enough international pressure on the South African government, such heinous crimes might finally be taken seriously. More than 2,000 Change.org members have added their name to the petition created by Ndumie and Millicent. Click here to add yours:

http://www.change.org/petitions/view...lBRjrGCA&me=aa

Thank you for taking action,

- The Change.org Team

P.S. Every time a new person signs the petition, the Justice Minister’s office automatically gets an email. So once you join, will you forward this to friends and family, and post on Facebook, so that they hear a global outcry?

[Marc]

Oh christ

[Smithy]

signed

[GypsyGoth]

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

[Stu]

I don't mean to sound racist but sweaty, loud, obnoxious Africans and their hardline, whacky religious views are absoloutely fucking stupid. It's almost as if it's a cultural virus that plagues them and it is showing no signs of going away anytime soon. In fact it is spreading to other countries like the UK and America.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Mr. Tinsels

I don't mean to sound racist but sweaty, loud, obnoxious Africans and their hardline, whacky religious views are absoloutely fucking stupid. It's almost as if it's a cultural virus that plagues them and it is showing no signs of going away anytime soon. In fact it is spreading to other countries like the UK and America.

Yes The African God stuff
is destroying Africa.

[letmein]

Originally Posted by Mr. Tinsels

I don't mean to sound racist but sweaty, loud, obnoxious Africans and their hardline, whacky religious views are absoloutely fucking stupid. It's almost as if it's a cultural virus that plagues them and it is showing no signs of going away anytime soon. In fact it is spreading to other countries like the UK and America.

America?

[Stu]

Originally Posted by letmein

America?

Yes, America. Have you got a question or are we just trading words? Plenty of dodgy backstreet African churches are being set up cladestine by immagrants in the UK and USA in addition to the usual slew of black Christian nuts who scream at the top of their lungs to a congregation of spasming troglodytes as counterpoint to their white trash brothers.

America.

America.

Say it after me.

[M X]

Signed!

[Jords]

Thats disgusting :/