Rape on trial in South Africa

@article{Kapp2006RapeOT,
  title={Rape on trial in South Africa},
  author={Clare Kapp},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2006},
  volume={367},
  pages={718-719},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:30557995}
}
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