Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Dumisani Rebombo


Dumisani Rebombo, a man who once raped a girl, is now an advocate for women’s rights in Africa. He committed the act at age 15 because his friends said that he should prove his manhood by raping someone. Rebombo and two of his friends raped her one after the other. Now, he looks back and feels very guilty for what he has done and has asked for forgiveness from his victim. He found out how much he had affect her life and that since then she had been raped two more times. In South Africa it is more likely for a woman to be raped than learn to read; it happens to a woman every 26 seconds in South Africa alone. There were 66,166 cases of rape reported last year, and it is believed that there were many more that just weren’t reported. In attempt to stop the violence and to start creating healthier relationships between men and women, Rebombo now works as the manager of “One Man Can.”

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