Cape Town – Specialised sexual offences courts could make a dent in South Africa’s staggeringly high rape rate by speeding up the turnover of rape cases and thereby convicting more rapists and encouraging more survivors to report the crime.

However, unless the South African government puts its money where its mouth is, the so-called “rape courts” will amount to nothing more than a “nice idea”.

This is according to several experts in the field who say that major funding shortfalls are the single-biggest barrier to the government’s plan to roll out 79 specialised courts within three years.
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