“The problems we are experiencing in our village are rape, killing and general lawlessness that has reached crisis proportions. People are raped, killed, shot, and their livestock stolen. There are two women in the village that were raped, after two months they are raped again, after another three months they are raped. The situation has become so bad that several families have abandoned their homes in fear for their lives.” These words of Nogcinile Mtirara, a 70-year-old woman and a member of