Mabel Jansen, who works in Pretoria, told commenters on a Facebook that "99 per cent" of her cases were "black fathers/uncles/brothers raping children as young as 5 years old", then asked one poster: "Is this part of your culture?"
She claimed that she was “yet to meet a black girl who wasn’t raped by the age of 12”. She said the “poverty etc” created by apartheid was “largely to blame” for South Africa’s widely-acknowledged sexual violence epidemic but added: "Fact: Apartheid existed. Fact: Black children and women are raped and abused and beaten and mistreated by black men to an extent that is so sickening one cannot even cope with it. And that is a FACT."
The woman’s league of the African National Congress (ANC) called Jansen’s remarks a ‘misrepresentation of black culture'. A petition calling for her dismissal has been launched.
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