Pretoria - Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe is expected to meet with rape activists in Cape Town this morning in what organisers describe as a call for action on 'corrective rape'.
Activists are expected to rally outside parliament prior to the meeting.
Last year, Luleki Sizwe, a small group of lesbian activists in the townships of Cape Town, launched a petition calling on the minister to take action on 'corrective rape'.
In just 100 days, activists said they had collected more than 170 000 signatures from 163 countries, making their campaign the most popular of all time on Change.org, the world's fastest growing social change platform with some three million monthly readers.
Activists are pushing the ministry to set up a commission to research, develop and implement a national action plan to tackle the intersecting issues of sexual violence and hate crimes.
"We have shown that we can mobilize tens of thousands of people in South Africa and around the world, and the ministry now knows that they can no longer ignore our long fight against 'corrective rape'," said Luleki Sizwe founder Ndumie Funda. "The question now is what they will actually do about it. The ball is in their court," she added.
