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Alison Armstrong South African rape cages Oct 27, 2005

October 27, 2005-- AIDS in Africa is caused by unsafe societies as well as unsafe sex. Canadian Alison Armstrong found that a foreigner in Johannesburg can enter a world of rape cages and razor wire.

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