In South Africa to be a man you have to rape...

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 of sexual violence is deeply embedded in society.

Rebombo agreed to share his story with The Associated Press as researchers presented findings Thursday at an international conference outside Johannesburg that more than one in four South African men surveyed admitted to committing rape. More...

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