Talk show host Redi Tlhabi delves into the nasty world of rape on Al Jazeera this Women’s Day

by Rachel Ogbu

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The stories of rape and violence against women continue to dishearten people around the world on a daily basis but still more others continue to attack women of all ages, destroying lives. It is a menace that does not have a social class and goes beyond boundaries of religion, age or wealth.

That is why coinciding with International Women’s Day, this Friday, Redi Tlhabi, Al Jazeera’s new global talk show host will address the problem on South 2 North.

Tlhabi will thrash out the global rape epidemic with Ratna Kapur, a Professor of Law at Jindal Global Law School in Delhi who lectures worldwide and works for the UN as a Senior Gender Advisor in Nepal.

She will also talk to Amelia Kleijn, a social worker in South Africa, and Professor Farid Esack, head of The Department of Religious Studies at The University of Johannesburg asking how we begin to understand and stop this global epidemic of sexual violence.

Tlhabi is also a radio presenter on 567 CapeTalk and 702 Talk Radio, two stations who interrupted their broadcasts on February 8, 2013 with a beep every four minutes, to remind listeners of the rate at which rape occurs within South Africa.

In December 2012, 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Pandey was gang-raped and savagely beaten on a bus in Delhi, India. She subsequently died from her injuries.

In February 2013, on another continent, in South Africa, 17-year-old Anene Booysen was brutally gang-raped – her intestines left lying next to her body. She too died.

Then last week an official report in the UK revealed that a London police sex crime unit pressured a woman to drop a rape claim against a man who then went on to murder his two children.

This week’s episode of South 2 North premieres at 19:30 GMT on Friday, March 8, 2013, as well as Saturday at 14h30, Sunday 04h30 and Monday 08h30.

Additionally, on Thursday at 22h30 GMT, Al Jazeera English programme 101 East will air a 30-minute film that speaks to men who admit to rape and violence against women, and asks them what it will take to change attitudes.

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