CRIME statistics in North West show that reported rape cases were up 7.9% last year compared to 6.6% in 2010.
Police spokesman Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said booze contributed to most of the cases.
He also said also that most of the cases were "domestic-related", where perpetrators are most often related to the victims.
It is often when liquor had been consumed and where it blurred the limits set between men and women.
The rest of the cases either couldn't be characterised or involved victims in vulnerable situations, where they could be presumed to have been drunk.
The worst affected areas are Kanana, Ikageng, Jouberton, Brits, Mahikeng, Itsoseng and Mmabatho.
Ngubane said analysis of this type of incident has invariably revealed that liquor had been consumed - often alcohol brought into the home.
He said the situation has been declared a crisis.
He urged the community to take the necessary precautions to curb the surge of rape and alcohol abuse.
He also blamed poor township planning and environmental design as a contributing factor in some areas.
"These areas are bushy, without lighting or with inadequate lighting, and most of these areas do not have street or high mast lights," Ngubane said.
In one incident a 15-year-old victim in Coligny was raped by two suspects.
They took her to nearby bushes where they raped her twice.
In another case, a 3-year-old girl was raped in Lichtenburg by a suspect known to the victim. This minor was raped in a toilet.
In other cases that were reported an 80-year-old woman was raped by a relative.
Most incidents mirror that of an Itsoseng female who, while drunk and on her way home from a tavern, was accosted and raped.
In yet another incident, the victim was at a tavern with the suspect and her boyfriend.
When the victim went to a toilet, she was raped there by the suspect who had followed her.
Ngubane said while the sharp increase in rape cases has been highlighted, assaults and murders have under these circumstances also shown a steady increase.
Similarly, serious assaults and murders have been linked to the supply and consumption of liquor.
Booze blamed for rise in rape cases
CRIME statistics in North West show that reported rape cases were up 7.9% last year compared to 6.6% in 2010.
Police spokesman Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said booze contributed to most of the cases.
He also said also that most of the cases were "domestic-related", where perpetrators are most often related to the victims.
It is often when liquor had been consumed and where it blurred the limits set between men and women.
The rest of the cases either couldn't be characterised or involved victims in vulnerable situations, where they could be presumed to have been drunk.
The worst affected areas are Kanana, Ikageng, Jouberton, Brits, Mahikeng, Itsoseng and Mmabatho.
Ngubane said analysis of this type of incident has invariably revealed that liquor had been consumed - often alcohol brought into the home.
He said the situation has been declared a crisis.
He urged the community to take the necessary precautions to curb the surge of rape and alcohol abuse.
He also blamed poor township planning and environmental design as a contributing factor in some areas.
"These areas are bushy, without lighting or with inadequate lighting, and most of these areas do not have street or high mast lights," Ngubane said.
In one incident a 15-year-old victim in Coligny was raped by two suspects.
They took her to nearby bushes where they raped her twice.
In another case, a 3-year-old girl was raped in Lichtenburg by a suspect known to the victim. This minor was raped in a toilet.
In other cases that were reported an 80-year-old woman was raped by a relative.
Most incidents mirror that of an Itsoseng female who, while drunk and on her way home from a tavern, was accosted and raped.
In yet another incident, the victim was at a tavern with the suspect and her boyfriend.
When the victim went to a toilet, she was raped there by the suspect who had followed her.
Ngubane said while the sharp increase in rape cases has been highlighted, assaults and murders have under these circumstances also shown a steady increase.
Similarly, serious assaults and murders have been linked to the supply and consumption of liquor.
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