Demonstrators hold placards protesting South African President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria earlier this month. (Herman Verwey/AP)For years, South African women and men have gone to Rustenburg Local Municipality in droves, attracted by its location at the heart of the world's largest platinum group metals repository. Nearly 90 percent of Rustenburg's mineworkers are men, while women, who have likewise flocked to the town from rural South Africa and nearby countries, struggle to find jobs. When measured against the town's population, these results suggest that about 50,000 (mostly migrant) women in Rustenburg have been raped — "shocking but not uncommon statistics in South Africa," the report said. [South Africa, once called 'the world's rape capital,' is running out of rape kits]Earlier this month, four young women held a silent anti-rape protest during a speech given by South African President Jacob Zuma.

Source: Washington Post August 17, 2016 16:47 UTC