• Two out of three women presenting to the trauma unit at Tygerberg Hospital, have been assaulted by partners, spouses or family members.
• In 1984, at a Pretoria symposium, it was estimated that up to 60 percent of marital relationships involve abuse.
• In South Africa, at least one woman is killed every six days by her male partner (femicide).
• According to the National Research Council one in three girl children will be sexually assaulted before the age of 18, and one in eight boys will be sexually assaulted.
• In a recent study in Khayelitsha, involving interviews with 24 pregnant teenage women (average age 16.4 years), 23 out of the 24 women interviewed described assault as a regular feature of their sexual relationships.
• According to the South African Police Services (SAPS), in 1995, there were 34 783 reported rapes. It is estimated by SAPS that only one in 35 rapes is reported: therefore over a million women were raped in South Africa in 1995. The breakdown of this figure is 3 335 rapes per day or 139 rapes per hour or 2.3 rapes per minute.
• SAPS have now estimated that a women is raped every 35 seconds.
• In South Africa during 1986, 62 percent of reported rapes were prosecuted. By 1993, only 32 percent of reported rapes were prosecuted. In 1986, 32 percent of all reported rapes resulted in conviction. By 1993, rape conviction rates dropped to 16 percent. Rape has the lowest conviction rate of all crimes of assault.

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