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Trending: Online Rape Stories – Truth or Fiction?

Online Rape Stories – Truth or Fiction?

16/01/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Trending, Online Rape Stories – Truth or Fiction?

Believing or blaming the victim - two rape stories test fiction and reality in SA

Two rape cases go viral in South Africa – one genuine, one fictional. But which one is believed?

On this week’s programme, 

Two stories about rape in South Africa; one about a woman who posted about her experience on Instagram to find people didn’t believe her and another which gripped the nation but was totally made up.  

And why are people so upset about a statue of the British colonialist Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University? We hear from the students who want it taken down.

Presented by Anne-Marie Tomchak @AMTomchak - with Nkem Ifejika @Nkemifejika and Emma Wilson @EmmaWilson1.

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