摘要：In August 2016 the hashtag #1in3 was trending in South Africa. This hashtag represents the pervasiveness ofsexual abuse in South Africa (i.e. one in three South Africans has experienced sexual abuse). Following a silentprotest at a political meeting, women from diverse backgrounds across South Africa took to social media to shareexperiences of sexual assault, bringing to the fore South Africa’s violent rape statistics. One Twitter user tweetedthe following 1 :Actually let me just get this straight. In my immediate family – we are 3/3. My mom.My sister. Me. #1in3Notwithstanding definitional issues as to what constitutes child sexual abuse (CSA), there is agreement on thepervasiveness of CSA in society, with data suggesting an average worldwide rate of 18% to 20%. 2 South AfricanCSA data are more alarming: Artz et al. 3 found that one in three young people in South Africa have experiencedsome form of sexual abuse, suggesting that at least 784 967 young people, as of 2016, had been victims of sexualabuse by the time they reached 17 years.
