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In South Africa, rape is linked to manhood
Dumisani Rebombo had not been circumcised, did house chores considered girls’ work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man. So he took the only other course considered “manly” in his rural South African village: He raped a girl.
He was 15, the victim younger. Twenty years later he searched for the woman to beg her forgiveness — a rarity in a nation where a culture...