STOP 2010 Human trafficking in South Africa
There is still so much human trafficking happening around the world, that it is absolutely incredible that people know so little about it. Sex Tourism is when tourists, mostly men, engage in sex-trafficking by purposely traveling to known sex destinations (usually under-developed and poor nations), seeking anonymity in pornography or prostitution, or engaging in pederasty with young children and homosexuality with young and older adults. Many of these victims were either sold into the trade or kidnapped and forced into sex-slavery (this is called human-trafficking). I would like to draw your...
Read MoreStop “Corrective Rape” in South Africa
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr It is with disgust and incredulity that I read daily about the heinous crime of “corrective rape” that is still taking place on the streets of South Africa, especially in the “African Townships” (basically poorer suburbs inhabited by Africans, such as Soweto, Gugulethu, Langa, Kayalitsha etc.) Corrective rape is “the rape of a lesbian by a man either to punish her or cure and correct her sexual orientation”. Despite South Africa having a very liberal constitution, which forbids discrimination against LGBTs ( Lesbians,...
Read MoreIntroducing Mario Olckers, IT Guy, Activist, Dad, etc…
We found another great voice from South Africa for you. His name is Mario Olckers and he is not your average kind of guy. He is a webdesigner / programmer (we met online of course;-), and he is also fairly outspoken about political issues in his country. Mario lived for three years as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar (Birma). He belongs to the sometimes forgotten fraction of “colored” people in South Africa – belonging to neither other ethnic group. Note: We are using the term “colored” repeatedly in this article. South Africa’s old regime established this term...
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