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Some of them risked death crossing into South Africa via the crocodile-infested Limpopo River, and others suffered further rapes and attacks from men who lurked at the border claiming to be guides. Yet they have found no respite in South Africa. Instead they are in an unwelcoming country — outcasts instead of victims — with nowhere to go, nowhere to work, nowhere to live, and nothing to eat.
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I was in bed asleep when they arrived. They broke the door. I screamed, but no one came to help. There were four men…They told me to lie down and remove my pants. They were beating me, and I fell down and hit my head on the floor. Then one of them hit me in the mouth with his fist. They knocked out my front teeth. It hurt very much. They spoke to each other about who should be the first to rape me. One of them said, “Go first, comrade…” I was out of my mind by then. I was wet all over my stomach area. I heard them saying, “We have hurt you. So go get tested because we have given you the prize of what you were doing.” I knew that they meant I would be HIV positive.
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AIDS-Free World's legal department issued this statement at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
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Press conference statement issued by Betty Makoni, women’s rights activist and former director of the Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe, at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
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“I don’t want my story to become just a song that I sing over and over,” says Alfonsine, a tiny, soft-spoken 30-year-old who survived an unimaginable rape, and has just been invited to be a spokesperson at the launch of a national campaign against sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The Agenda 
