I was about to say *why don't you* when a parade of rape statistics marched merrily through my brain.

Beyond this we also have the highest rape statistics in the world, and still practise traditions like ukuthwala, which allows families to arrange (sell?)

Inconsistent definitions of rape, different rates of reporting, recording, prosecution and conviction for rape create controversial statistical disparities, and lead to accusations that many rape statistics are unreliable or misleading.

Another factor affecting rape statistics, the police say, is the difficulty in capturing the small but troubling number of rapists who repeatedly attack strangers.

But the rape statistics may only stratch the surface.

Although rape statistics had been obtained from the South African Police Service, "this only denotes the incidents of rape that were reported, some of which could have resulted in acquittals" Mbeki indicated.

As a result of the revised definition, the FBI expects to see an increase in reported rape offense data once the law enforcement community makes the necessary reporting changes to collect revised rape statistics.

The police are hard pressed to explain the rape statistics, except to say the increase was driven by rapes in which the victim knew the attacker; rapes by strangers were down 8 percent.

During the campaign, Grucci ran radio ads accusing Bishop of falsifying rape statistics at the college, but his claims were based on articles from a college newspaper that contained numerous inaccuracies.

The Home Office has previously only given national rape statistics and none on indecent assaults, fearing it would increase women's worries.