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The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha

Date
23 Aug 2006
Updated
30 Sep 2019
The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha

The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reported that almost half of the rapes in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township involved girls under fourteen, with the youngest survivor aged one and the oldest a grandmother aged seventy-six. From August 2005 to July 2006 the Centre treated 743 rape cases, an average of two to three a day. The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre was a response to the high degree of sexual violence against women and children in South African townships. Simelela provides medical care and psychosocial support and has integrated with other service providers to offer forensic examination and police assistance to rape survivors in a single location. Khayelitsha has one of the highest rates of rape cases in South Africa. It is estimated that 1 in 3 females will be raped in their life time in this township.

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  1. 01Smart Cape (2010)Rape in Khayelitsha[online] Available at: www.smartcape.org.za[Accessed on 13 August 2012]
  2. 02Doctors Without  Borders Post-rape Center in Khayelitsha Treats Shocking Number of Children[online] Available at: www.doctorswithoutborders.org  [Accessed on 13 August 2012]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2012, August 16). The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha . South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0091122

South African History Online (2012) 'The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha ', South African History Online, 16 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0091122 (Accessed: 11 August 2026).

South African History Online, The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0091122, (accessed 11 August 2026).

"The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha ." South African History Online, 16 Aug. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0091122. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha ." South African History Online. August 16, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0091122.

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