“Pray, that God may save us”

We have been living in the world of hospitals and clinics, moms with AIDS and kids with bruises,
nurses and social workers for the past 5 days.








We met head Nurse Nombuyiselo today, she believes that evil spirits come to “invade these hollow people amongst us”, who commit the ultimate crime -killing a child – slowly.















Girls as young as eight know what rape is, when asked what do you like about being a girl, they came up with nothing, they wanted to be boys – they were so afraid of being hurt, and boys beating them up.

HOW DO YOU STOP THIS, we asked? Pray she said!

The statistics of a recently conducted Gauteng Area study reveal the same:

“ A group of us had been talking about rape. I said I could take care of myself, I wouldn’t be a rape victim. One boy said I couldn’t. I told him I wasn’t afraid of him, and that he couldn’t hurt me. He wanted me to know I SHOULD BE AFRAID. I am afraid. I think of what if there was no stick on the ground. I think if there was no stick- he would rape me. I think if he was in this room with us right now he would rape me.” (9 year old girl / Gauteng )









WHERE DO YOU TURN? As Xplorers we have been battling with this question for five days. There are so many facets to this problem,that make it an enormously complex social issue. We are dealing with the issue of spirits, religion and silence.

“How can the day break, how can birds sing - when our children are dying? - Said by a mother whose little boy was raped and killed by a pedophile last year.

There is a huge veil of secrecy in all the communities that we visit. We need to instill a holy anger that leads to communities ostracizing the perpetrator not the victim.