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SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDREN HAVE EXPERIENCED SOME FORM OF SEXUAL ABUSE
There are
53 million people in South Africa, of which 18.6 million
784 967 Of these children
between the ages of 15 and 17 have experienced some form of sexual abuse
are children under the age of 18. Children therefore constitute 35% of the total South African population.
That is almost the population of Port Elizabeth and almost double the population of Bloemfontein.
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It is also the equivalent of filling up Johannesburg’s Soccer City Stadium eight times over and the Cape Town Stadium 14 times over
abused children may be sitting in your child’s classroom and 20 will be sitting in an average school bus
Child sexual abuse in South Africa at a glance
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