1) In a 2001 report, Human Rights Watch found that sexual violence against girls “permeates the whole of the South African education system.”[1] In 2006, the South African Human Rights Commission noted that sexual violence, including abuse perpetrated by educators, was one of the most prevalent forms of violence identified in its hearings on violence in schools.[2] Moreover, in 2011, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) “expresse[d] grave concern about the high number of girls who suffer sexual abuse and harassment in schools by both teachers and classmates, as well as the high number of girls who suffer sexual violence while on their way to/from school [in South Africa].”[3] A 2012 study by the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention on violence in schools revealed that 4.7% of learners have been raped or sexually assaulted at school.[4]