RAPE, a South African nightmare

192pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2015. 

Pumla Dineo Gqola investigates rape in South Africa, examining the relationship between race and rape, "the female fear factory", boy rape and violent masculinities, corrective rape, baby rape, as well as the rape trials of Jacob Zuma, Bob Hewitt, Makhaya Ntini, Baby Tshepang and Anene Booysen.

Pumla Dineo Gqola is Associate Professor of African Literary and Gender Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is also the author of "What is Slavey to Me? Postcolonial/ slave memory in post-apartheid South Africa" and "A Renegade called Simphiwe".