Students cry for justice for an alleged rape victim
"Rapists don't rape outfits, they rape people." This is what one of the posters read that student protesters carried when they protested in front of the local police station on Tuesday.
WATERVAL BOVEN -Other posters read:
“Please take us serious captain”, “Captain we want peace here in Boven” and “Does it make you feel more of a man knowing you forced yourself on me?”
The protesters accused the local police of not acting on the alleged rape of a student that reportedly occurred in the rural area earlier this week. They reportedly walked from the TVET College to the police station, where they tried to get the attention of the authorities.
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Resident, Rudolph Pretorius told Lowvelder that the students were very angry and sad.
“They told me that they feel like their complaints are not being heard and that this is apparently not the first time,” Pretorius said.
According to him, the students were never violent. Despite numerous efforts, the provincial police spokesman, Brig Leonard Hlati, did not respond to enquiries by the newspaper.
