<p>The survey, by the government-funded Medical Research Council and non-profit organisation Gender Links, found that 37.4 per cent of men in the north-central province of Gauteng admitted to committing rape at some point in their lives, while 25.3 per cent of women said they had been victims of rape.<br /><br />It follows up on a national survey carried out last year that found that more than one in four South African men admitted to having raped a woman or girl.<br /><br />"The previous level was so high that we didn't expect it to be even higher," Rachel Jewkes, a researcher at the Medical Research Council, told AFP.<br /><br />Researchers surveyed 487 men and 511 women in Gauteng, the country's second-most populous province, which is home to Pretoria, the capital, and Johannesburg, the largest city.<br /><br />The study group was 90 per cent black and 10 per cent white, reflecting the province's demographics, authors said.<br /><br />Over half the women surveyed said they had experienced some form of violence -- emotional, economic, physical or sexual -- in their lifetimes, and 78.3 per cent of men admitted to perpetrating some form of violence against women.<br /><br />South Africa has one of the world's highest rates of reported rape, with 36,190 cases -- 99 per day -- reported to police in 2007, but experts say that only a small number of attacks are actually reported.<br /><br />The MRC study found that only one in 25 rapes had been reported to the police.<br />South Africa has the highest number of HIV infections in the world, compounding the trauma rape victims face.<br /><br />In the 2009 study, one in five confessed rapists tested positive for HIV.</p>
<p>The survey, by the government-funded Medical Research Council and non-profit organisation Gender Links, found that 37.4 per cent of men in the north-central province of Gauteng admitted to committing rape at some point in their lives, while 25.3 per cent of women said they had been victims of rape.<br /><br />It follows up on a national survey carried out last year that found that more than one in four South African men admitted to having raped a woman or girl.<br /><br />"The previous level was so high that we didn't expect it to be even higher," Rachel Jewkes, a researcher at the Medical Research Council, told AFP.<br /><br />Researchers surveyed 487 men and 511 women in Gauteng, the country's second-most populous province, which is home to Pretoria, the capital, and Johannesburg, the largest city.<br /><br />The study group was 90 per cent black and 10 per cent white, reflecting the province's demographics, authors said.<br /><br />Over half the women surveyed said they had experienced some form of violence -- emotional, economic, physical or sexual -- in their lifetimes, and 78.3 per cent of men admitted to perpetrating some form of violence against women.<br /><br />South Africa has one of the world's highest rates of reported rape, with 36,190 cases -- 99 per day -- reported to police in 2007, but experts say that only a small number of attacks are actually reported.<br /><br />The MRC study found that only one in 25 rapes had been reported to the police.<br />South Africa has the highest number of HIV infections in the world, compounding the trauma rape victims face.<br /><br />In the 2009 study, one in five confessed rapists tested positive for HIV.</p>