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Rape
Pumla Dineo Gqola
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A recurring nightmare
What’s race got to do with rape?
Ruling violence
The female fear factory
Making sense of responses to the Jacob Zuma rape trial
Forked tongue on child rape
Rape myths
Violent masculinities and war talk
Conclusion
Bibliography
A South African nightmare
Grace Musila, thank you, again, for meticulous reading, incisive feedback and elegant editing of another manuscript from me. Melinda Ferguson, whose patience I test way beyond the reasonable, thank you for being a dream publisher once again, and for saying “We’re not robots, we’re human beings”. Danai Mupotsa, I just cannot believe your mind. You are such a treasure.
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It is condescending to poor people to suggest that these men cannot be held accountable for choosing to rape. It is also the most pernicious patriarchal lie that men – any men and all men — cannot help themselves when confronted by women’s bodies. It is rape culture. Rape culture renders rape acceptable.
It is not immediately clear to me whether violence against women is on the increase or not. What does seem clear is the manner in which it seems to be more brazen, and I am not sure whether it is being reported more directly in the news and therefore more visible in its brazenness or whether there has been an upward turn. Given the fact that rape-reporting numbers are always much lower than incidents of rape, this is not a question we can confidently answer in the short term.
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