nne Mayne, was gang-raped in Cape Town in the early 1970s and then she found out there was no support for rape survivors. She was really intrigued by this idea of people from communities supporting other people from different communities that are rape survivors. That was the start of Rape Crisis centres around the world,” says Jeanne Bodenstein, the advocacy co-ordinator for Rape Crisis.
Rape Crisis has worked with survivors for 43 years, offering them counselling, support during court and training high school pupils to facilitate workshops that address rape culture. Bodenstein says Rape Crisis was started as a volunteer support group for rape survivors and still largely relies on volunteers.“TAnd the more people push for the government to take gender-based violence seriously, the more it “creates a window to put more pressure [on the government].”public. The National Register for Sexual Offenders only lists people who have been convicted of raping people with intellectual disabilities and children.
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