South Africa spouse killings epidemic

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/05/24/wife.killings.reut/index.html

South Africa spouse killings epidemic
1 of every 1,100 women killed by partner
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 Posted: 9:00 AM EDT (1300 GMT)


JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- A woman is killed every six hours in South Africa by her partner and less than 40 percent of the homicides lead to a conviction, according to a new study.

The study is further evidence of the deep social scars that remain a decade after the end of apartheid, a regime that provoked a major upsurge in violence and alcoholism and stigmatized and disempowered black men, according to analysts.

"A woman is killed by her intimate partner in South Africa every six hours. This is the highest rate (8.8 per 100,000 female population 14 years and older) that has ever been reported in research anywhere in the world," the study says.

[MasonJar]

1. I am sorry , but these wives/partners suffered also under the old

system. These black men need to get their empowerment back some other way.

[noiretextatique]

2. interesting statistic from the article

"The study found that women of mixed race are the most at risk of being killed by their partner, with 18.3 out of 100,000 dying that way in 1999.
The rates per 100,000 for other racial groups were: African, 8.9, Indian 7.5 and white 2.8."

under the old apartheid system the mixed race folks were a separate category from blacks. i am not so convinced that it's black men who are doing all the killing, even though the article does tend to give that impression.