Johannesburg - The most dangerous place for a girl child in SA is at school and on her way to school, CEO for Child Witness Institute Dr Karen Muller said.
Muller was speaking at the Women and Men Against Child Abuse media briefing.
She said local studies, as well as a study by Unicef, found walking to school and school toilets were when children were most likely to be targeted and sexually abused.
"The most likely offenders are fellow students or teachers because fellow students who offend have also been sexually assaulted and are most likely to offend, though still at school. We have seen in the press there are a lot of teachers who have abused children while at school."
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This came after several cases of sexual assault against women and girl children in recent weeks.
The Sunday Times reported that more than 20 pupils, aged between 15 and 16, had accused a school's water polo coach of sexual assault.
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7% conviction rate
The allegations emerged after the teacher, an assistant boarding school master, was caught on a surveillance camera allegedly fondling a 15-year-old pupil's genitals in the common room of the school's hostel in November 2016.
Muller said one of the problems in the country was the 7% conviction rate for sexual offenders in the country. She said it could take years for a sexual assault case to go to trial, which allows the survivor to become despondent.
"We have come across most of our cases when the parents say: 'Isn't it better to take my child to therapy and just leave the criminal justice process?' It might be better for the individual child, but it's not better for the community because the offender will do it again to someone else. On the ground there is a feeling that not enough is being done."
She said most programmes were geared toward the HIV/Aids pandemic, "but we have more sexual abuse victims than we have HIV victims. We don't talk about that. It's a silent thing that's there. The big problem is that our children are dealing with this in silence."
Eight people who claimed to have been sexually abused by the late billionaire stockbroker Sidney Frankel are heading to the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg to change the laws around sexual offences.
This would mean that sexual offences will be regarded with the same seriousness as rape.
Muller said it would be a very long fight to get the courts to acknowledge that sexual offences - other than rape - can have as traumatic an impact.
She said courts tend to be of the view that sexual offences are not as serious as rape and their sentences are therefore less.
"What we are hoping is that this judgment will send a message that sexual assault is as serious... as rape so that we can get sentencing on par."


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Cape Town - If you're the type who enjoys looking up in wonder at the moon and stars - don't expect anything earth-shattering with the upcoming supermoon - better known as the stealth moon and with good reason.  
On Thursday, 25 May, the closest supermoon of the year will occur, we just won't be able to see it. Stealthy!
You'd need x-ray supervision of note for this one.  "Because this time,"
Space.com
explains, "the closest perigee of the year won't coincide with a full moon, but a new moon. 
"So Earth's nearest neighbour will be effectively out of sight to one and all because of its closeness to the sun in the sky," they say. 
This means that while the moon will be closest to Earth, it will be almost entirely invisible as the side of the moon facing Earth will be completely dark. 
 
Super tides expected 
Although us Earthlings won't be able to see Thursday's Stealth Supermoon, we will certainly be able to see and feel its effects.  
Space.com
warns that the range of tides expected over the upcoming weekend will be abnormally large. 
National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) spokesperson Craig Lambinon says it is important to note that every Coastline in the world is affected by Spring Tide, which happens twice every month at full moon and at new moon.
“The effect of supermoon on this phenomenon is very slight. There are sometimes other celestial occurrences that coincide with a supermoon, even though the effect remains slight even during these extra phenomena - but there are none that we know of during this supermoon,” says Lambinon.
The
NSRI
does however normally put out Spring tide warnings, especially during the busier summer months, because of the stronger rip currents that form during higher and lower tides.   
Spring Tide lasts for a few days leading up to the full or new moon, peak on the day of the full or new moon, and last for a few days after the full or the new moon.  During Spring Tide these permanent rip currents and temporary rip currents are stronger than normal and although rip currents at all times pose a danger to bathers they pose the greatest danger during the Spring Tide.
Lambinon offers the following advice for beachgoers, “Be aware of rip currents and particularly the Full Moon and New Moon Spring Tides that cause stronger than normal rip currents around the coast.”
“Bathers and shoreline anglers are most at risk during a Spring Tide and extreme caution is advised.
Spring Tide 101 
If you get caught in a rip current, do not panic. Simply stay afloat by treading water (moving your arms and legs in circular movements), don’t try to swim against the current as it will only cause you exhaustion.
Rather allow the current sweep you out to sea, but at your first opportunity, swim parallel to the beach front until you are free of the rip current and then use the incoming waves to get back to shore. 
While this is happening scream for help and wave your arm to alert people on the beach to raise the alarm.
The next full moon supermoon is due to on New Year's Day 2018 - which should promise for a bright night time spectacle again. 
If you're an avid star-gazer, there is still hope for some night sky action this month, however. 
Keep the telescope close-by to see Earth's moon as it passes close by the blue-white star Regulus in Leo on 31 May. Us lucky sky-watchers in southern Africa will be able to see the moon "occult the star," 
NatGeo says
.  
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