South Africa

South Africa

International Treaties

1. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/documents/rs-eng.pdf

2. The Convention on the Rights of the Child

https://www.ohchr.org/documents/professionalinterest/crc.pdf

3. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/OPSCCRC.aspx

 

Regional Treaties

1. African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the child

https://www.un.org/en/africa/osaa/pdf/au/afr_charter_rights_welfare_child_africa_1990.pdf

Domestic Law 

1. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 

http://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/constitution/SAConstitution-web-eng.pdf

2. The Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977

http://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/1977-051.pdf 

3. Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998

http://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/1998-116.pdf

4. Children’s Act 38 of 2005 with Amendments 

http://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/2005-038%20childrensact.pdf

5. Older Persons Act 2006 (Act No. 13 of 2006)

http://www.partners-popdev.org/ageing/docs/SA_2006-013_olderpersons.pdf

6. Protection from Harassment Act, 2011 (Act No 17 of 2011) 

http://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/2011-017.pdf

7. Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act, 2013 (Act No 7 of 2013) 

https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/36715gon544.pdf

8. Service Charter for Victims of Crime in South Africa 

http://www.justice.gov.za/vc/docs/vc/vc-eng.pdf

9. Judicial Matters Second Amendment Act, 2013 (Act No 43 of 2013) 

http://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/2013-043.pdf

10. The National Policy Framework on Management of Sexual Offences:Section 62(1) of the Criminal Law (Sexual offences and related matters)Amendment Act, 2007

https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/36804gon649.pdf

11. The South Africa Police Service National Instruction 3/2008: Sexual Offences

https://www.saps.gov.za/resource_centre/acts/downloads/sexual_offences/ni/ni0308e.pdf>

12. Policy to Address Sexual Abuse of Inmates in DCS Facilities, 2011

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0ByMc18Au_16UWHNDY0ZZTVZnVWM

13.  Policy to Address Sexual Abuse of Inmates in DCS Facilities, 2011

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0ByMc18Au_16UWHNDY0ZZTVZnVWM

14. National Sexual Assault policy, 2005 

http://evaw-global-database.unwomen.org/-/media/files/un%20women/vaw/full%20text/africa/national%20sexual%20assault%20policy%20-%202005.pdf?vs=2514

15. Integrated Violence Prevention Policy Framework

https://www.westerncape.gov.za/sites/www.westerncape.gov.za/files/integrated-violence-prevention-policy-framework.pdf

16. Draft Regulations relating to Sexual Offences Courts: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and related matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (Act No 32 of 2007) https://juta.co.za/media/filestore/2017/11/Draft_Regulations_relating_to_Sexual_Offences_Courts_2017.pdf

Reports of the United Nations

1. National Policy Guidelines For Victim Empowerment, Department of Social Development, Republic of South, UNODC, European Union Africa,https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Women/SR/Shelters/National%20policy%20guidelines%20for%20victim%20empowerment.pdf

Reports of other International/Regional Organisations/ National Governments

1. Report of Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on the implementation of Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 32 of 2007: 01 April 2014 to 31 March 2015

https://www.justice.gov.za/vg/sxo/2014-2015-SORMA-Report.pdf

Books, Articles and Newspaper Publications

1. Minimum standards for service delivery in Victim Empowerment (Victims of Crime and Violence), Department of Social Development, Republic of South Africa, First issue: 25 August 2004 Reproduced: January 2008

https://www.westerncape.gov.za/sites/www.westerncape.gov.za/files/minimum-standards-for-service-delivery-victim-empowerment.pdf

2. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Final Report 21 March 2003

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/

3. Kristin L. Dunkle, Rachel K. Jewkes , Daniel W. Murdock, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Robert Morrell,  Prevalence of Consensual Male–Male Sex and Sexual Violence, and Associations with HIV in South Africa: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study, PLOS Medicine June 18, 2013

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001472

4. Romi Sigsworth, Senior Researcher, Gender-Based Violence Programme, Anyone can be a rapist…    … ’ An Overview of Sexual Violence in South Africa, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), 2017 

https://www.csvr.org.za/images/docs/sexualviolence.pdf

5. Karen M Devries, Franziska Meinck, Sexual violence against children and adolescents in South Africa: making the invisible visible, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 6, Issue 4, April 01 2018, p.367-368

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30106-2/fulltext 

6. Catherine L Ward, Lillian Artz, Lezanne Leoschut, Reshma Kassanjee, Patrick Burton, Sexual violence against children in South Africa: a nationally representative cross-sectional study of prevalence and correlates, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 6, Issue 4, April 01 2018, p. 460-468 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30060-3/fulltext 

7. Alice Clarfelt , Men and Boys and Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV). Discussions with youth peer educators and staff at Restless Development South Africa: challenges and recommendations., Restless Development, Report 9th October 2014

https://restlessdevelopment.org/file/res-sa-men-and-boys-gbv-oct2014-pdf

8. Louise du Toit, Shifting Meanings of Postconflict Sexual Violence in South Africa  Vol. 40, No. 1 (Autumn 2014)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273177610_Shifting_Meanings_of_Postconflict_Sexual_Violence_in_South_Africa

9. K Dunkle et al,Prevalence of consensual male–male sex and sexual violence, and associations with HIV in South Africa: a population-based cross-sectional study, PLoS Medicine, 10:6, 2013

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001472

10. DOJ&CD. Report On The Re-Establishment Of Sexual Offences Courts South Africa, Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, Republic of South Africa, 2013

https://www.justice.gov.za/reportfiles/other/2013-sxo-courts-report-aug2013.pdf

11. Sasha Gear, Imprisoning men in violence: Masculinity and sexual abuse: a view from South African prisons, SA Crime Quarterly No 33,  Septemeber 2010

https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/sacq/article/view/877

12. Yandisa Sikweyiya & Rachel Jewkes, Force and temptation: contrasting South African men’s accounts of coercion into sex by men and women

Culture, Health & Sexuality, 11:5, 529-541

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13691050902912783

13. Karen Booyens, The sexual assault and rape of male offenders and awaiting-trial detainees, Doctor Philosophiae, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, 2008. 

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/de63/aa73ff5ad96435ea77a28fed0cdf2a2d2d00.pdf

14. L Artz & D Smythe (ed) , Should We Consent? Rape Law Reform in South Africa, Juta & Co, Ltd 2008

https://sites.google.com/s/1AN6Ct18M6QlTA3_c1eLlh8_DWLApTGag/p/1uRywqj6wXp9HQ5IIhJ6npG7dXAP67hSl/edit

15. Dunkle, KL, Jewkes, R, Nduna, M, Jama, N, Levin, J, Sikweyiya, Y and Koss, MP. , Transactional sex with casual and main partners among young South African men in the rural Eastern Cape: Prevalence, predictors, and associations with gender-based violence, Social Science & Medicine 65: 1235-1248, 2007

http://genderbias.net/docs/resources/guideline/Transactional%20sex%20with%20casual%20and%20main%20partners%20among%20young.pdf

16. Sasha Gear, Doing Time in a Gauteng Juvenile Correctional Centre for Males, Briefing Report 01, Johannesburg, CSVR, 2007

https://www.csvr.org.za/docs/gender/doingtime.pdf

17. Sasha Gear, Fear, Violence and Sexual Violence in a Gauteng Juvenile Correctional Centre for Males, Briefing Report 02 , Johannesburg: CSVR, 2007

https://www.csvr.org.za/docs/gender/doingtime.pdf

18. Robert W Dumond, The Impact of Prisoner Sexual Violence: Challenges of Implementing Public Law, 108-79 – The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, Journal of Legislation, Volume 32 , Issue 2,5 January 2006

https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=jleg

19. Sasha Gear, Mark Isserow with Camilla Nevill, Situational Analysis of Boksburg Youth Centre: Sexual Violence in Prison Pilot Project (Dec 2004 – Jan 2005) Survey Report

Johannesburg, CSVR, 2006

https://www.csvr.org.za/docs/consolidated1208.pdf

20. Sasha Gear, Rules of engagement: structuring sex and damage in men’s prisons and beyond Culture, Health & Sexuality, 7(3), 2005, 195-208

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6922332_Rules_of_engagement_Structuring_sex_and_damage_in_men’s_prisons_and_beyond

21. Abrahams, N., Jewkes, R., Hoffman, M. & R. Laubsher, Sexual violence against intimate partners in Cape Town: prevalence and risk factors reported by men, Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2004; 82 (4)

https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/5/330.pdf

22. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Final Report, 21 March 2003

http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/ 

23. S Gear and K Ngubeni, Daai Ding, Sex, Sexual Violence and Coercion in Men’s Prisons, Johannesburg, CSVR, 2002

http://www.csvr.org.za/docs/correctional/daaidingsex.pdf

Websites

1. UNICEF South Africa  ‘Thuthuzela Care Centres’

https://www.unicef.org/southafrica/protection_998.html

2. Thuthuzela Care Centres Brochure

https://www.npa.gov.za/sites/default/files/resources/public_awareness/TCC_brochure_august_2009.pdf

3. Cynthia Maseko, Male rape still considered a joke in South Africa, 29 July 2015, Health 24 

https://www.health24.com/Lifestyle/Man/Your-body/Male-rape-still-considered-a-joke-in-South-Africa-20150729 

4. Se-Anne Rall, Secret shame of male rape, 24 June 2017, IOL

https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/secret-shame-of-male-rape-9939364 

5. Cynthia Maseko, Male rape victim: ‘He turned me over with force’, 29 August 2017, Health 24

https://www.health24.com/Lifestyle/Man/Your-body/male-rape-victim-he-turned-me-over-with-force-20170829 

6. The South African Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

 www.samsosa.org 

7. Sonke Gender Justice Network, South Africa

 www.genderjustice.org.za 

8. Sonke Gender Justice Network, South Africa (Testimonials) 

https://genderjustice.org.za/digital-story/?wpv-story-theme=sexual-violence-in-prisons&wpv_aux_current_post_id=7503&wpv_view_count=5702-TCPID7503

9. Male Survivor Stories, The Bristlecone Project

https://1in6.org/get-information/male-survivor-stories/

News

1. Lauren Isaacs, George serial rapist (21) gets hefty prison sentence, Eyewitness News     

 https://ewn.co.za/2018/09/05/george-serial-rapist-21-gets-hefty-prison-sentence 

2. Richard Hartley-Parkinson, Schoolboy gets gang-raped by other school boys, Metro News, 25 September2019

https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/25/boy-five-raped-gang-nine-year-old-boys-south-africa-10806339/

3. Tshepo Phagane,  investigating gang rape of grade R boy, SABC News, 27 September 2019

http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/police-investigating-gang-rape-of-grade-r-boy/ 

4. Sharika Regchand, Man who allegedly raped young boy in Mosque is granted bail, News 24 March 2019

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/man-accused-of-11-year-old-boys-rape-granted-bail-20190902-2 

5. Naledi Shange, Thaba Nchu schoolboy raped by five classmates, Sowetan Live, 12 June 2018

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-06-12-thaba-nchu-schoolboy-raped-by-five-classmates/

6.    Prega Govender, Boy (15) to relive horror of gang rape, Sowetan Live, 05 September 2019

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-09-05-boy-15-to-relive-horror-of-gang-rape/

7. Sheena Swemmer,  Attempted rape is not as serious as other sexual violence in South Africa, Daily Maverick, 3 March 2019

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-03-03-attempted-rape-is-not-treated-as-a-serious-offence-in-sa-law/

8. Naledi Shange, Male survivors often do not speak up, because they do not view the sexual violation that has happened to them as a crime , Times Live, 9 April 2019

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-04-09-sa-men-are-sexually-abused-too-but-stigmas-stop-them-from-speaking-out/

9.  Liesl Pretorius, 5 years on: Are sexual offences courts working?, City Press, 26 November 2018

https://city-press.news24.com/News/are-sexual-offences-courts-working-20181126