This follows a Sowetan exposé of the notorious website that is distributing cellphone video footages of local South Africans engaging in sex.

Disturbing footages included that of the Jules High School sex video in which three pupils between the ages of 15 and 16 were filmed having sex.

Also on the site is a video of a young girl repeatedly having sex with three men while still in her school uniform.

Adding to the disturbance is a video of a drunk girl being raped by a group of seven men.

News of the website's existence shocked many South Africans.

Yesterday Gauteng provincial police spokeswoman Captain Katlego Mogale said: "We referred the matter (sex website) to the national office since it is a national issue."

National police spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Tumi Shai said "cyber police" were investigating the matter.

Shai said cyber crime was different from normal crime.

"We will have to check the validity of the website, where is it being operated from, who is feeding the website content and arrest those responsible," Shai said.

But she, warned this would take time since investigations of this nature were normally hard to crack.

Lambasting the site, ANC Women's League spokeswoman Troy Martens said yesterday: "We condemn in the strongest possible term the shameful and criminal Goboza website."

Martens said the site was a disgrace to society as "it makes one sick to the stomach that people enjoy entertaining criminal exploitation of young girls as well as blatant rape".

"We urge the authorities to act fast in shutting down the site and prosecuting those operating and hosting the website," she said.

Mlimandlela Ndamase of the Film and Publications Board said investigations into the site would also seek to establish where the site was being hosted.

"Should it be hosted outside South Africa we will activate our International Association of Internet Hotlines, where our foreign partners will be informed and requested to assist in the closure of such a site."

Family psychologist Wendy Hay said: "Such sexual acts cannot be condoned because they are not based on relationships."

Hay said: "South Africans had lost their sense of identity in the wake of transformation".

By late yesterday more videos had been posted on the site.

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Dec 14, 2011

SifisoHadebe

I hope these cyber police know how to hack.
And I hope a financial heavy-weight has their back.
It's a huge task to go after a web site with a porn stack.
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Dec 14, 2011

PlumtreeKhalanga

This is a total disgrace and high degradation of our women in society. I just wish the perpetrators were in America and bebezoyikhotha imbenge yomile. Cases of child pornography account to a life sentence in the states. I saw some of the videos including one of a colored mother indulging in incest with her 6-8 year old son. I hope she rots in hell...
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Dec 14, 2011

tpaz

waste of time and resources, pornsites are everywhere....

teach children good manners and culture and to value themselves at home.
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Dec 14, 2011

CheeseBoy

what is so difficult about finding the web ISP hosting the site and having it shut down. ??

What prevents them from starting another one elsewhere ?

you can never limit the minds of sick and depraved sex pests. they always think of ingenious ways to continue their deeds.
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Dec 14, 2011

Atro

Dankie,@CheeseBoy. They will close one down and another will emerge. It's a sick world.
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Dec 14, 2011

MommaC

I agree with CheeseBoy.
Why shut it down? They will just have it up and running again within a few days
Use it to track down all the scumbuckets who posted there.
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Dec 14, 2011

Socrates

@Cheeseboy, cant agree more, however deterrent is the best prevention of crime, yes they will but if you know jail term will follow you might not do it. One criminal of our street makes a diferrence
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Dec 14, 2011

Bizzabo

You just teach your kids manners and culture like Tpaz said.
Kids having cell phones at an early age
DSTV raises kids
No more church
Westernasation of our culture( the clever ones will say we are moving with the times and civilasation
looking down at our culture
Family values not observed anymore(including parents)


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Dec 14, 2011

RobinH

Wendy Hay: "Such sexual acts cannot be condoned because they are not based on relationships." WHAT!!!! And you call yourself a "family psychologist!!!??? So the repeated rape of a girl could be acceptable if it were instigated by a boyfriend or uncle? A seriously dof statement that means sweet eff all.


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Dec 14, 2011

SoloD

You are just dealing with the symptoms of something huge here...its the parenting thats failing here
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