To the author of this article and all who side with his misguided immoral ways of thinking but then try to make a "woman's rights" issue out of it. KEEP YOUR WESTERN WAYS TO YOURSELVES!! All Afrikans know that if a woman dresses seductively with for example a mini-skirt, then some men will make passes at them and everyone else might mistake them for a prostitute. Secondly the battle feminist battle cry for woman to have "equal rights" is REALLY the white woman's battle & NOT the African Queens. After all Afrika has and still does have a far better record than the Western countries at woman being in positions of power. We had many African Queens ruling over vast Kingdoms in the past & have more than a few Heads of State today. For example, how many women of ANY color have been President of the United States? ZERO! Just recently Swaziland elected Afrika's 1st. female Bishop while at the same time the so called enlightened ones in the U.K. are the one's holding ALL woman back.

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I applaud the leadership of Swaziland for having the wisdom to have such insightful laws and customs on the books from their ancestors that promote modesty :-D Everyone with half a brain knows that Africa has a major AIDS problem and that AIDS gets spread in a MAJOR WAY through CASUAL SEX!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_South_Africa

Richard Koony I don't know if your really a Western crony trying to shove Western ways aka (FAKE A$$ DEMOCRACY) down our throats OR just a lousy reporter but either way get your facts strait before opening up your big mouth :-O

Sadly, rapist men always blame the woman. This isn't about women or what they wear. Are men so weak, to fragile, that a little skin drives them crazy, drives them to rape? This is the great shame of men, and shame on those societies that allow men to behave shamefully, behave like goats, and then blame the women. This isn't a white woman's battle, or something imported from the West. This is about human beings, women included, and it's all about basic respect and kindness and equality. Men have a lot of growing up to do, and it's going to take time. Men don't always learn so easily. As for the culture, the economy, where women are denied their rights, everyone suffers, the culture decays, and the economy shrinks.

Should the government decide to ban mini skirts that should not be an issue for South Africa. In these times morality is very important to our young African children. Certainly we do not want immorality or promiscuity???? Whom are these young girls dressing so revealing for? There certainly is no shame on such a ban!!!!!!!!!!. I would think that most of Africa wuld see sense in that!!!! We want educated children!!! not children interested in sex promiscuity ???? This is a cross roads where we find AFRICA ,it is important that we do not allow for our ineterst to be inetertwined with those of the West!!!. The west is trying desperately for us to adapt their dirty immoral indecent iniquitous abominatable damnations!!!!!! AFRICA must repel these thoughts of derision and nastiness!!!; AFRICANS are of a righetouss people and the truth is clear!!!. We must rememebr that our destiny is far removed from the destiny of these imperialist enslavers ... They are now agaqin threatening AFRICA witrh thier subtle invasions trying to frighten africans. I say to SDWAZI people if you want to ban mini9 skirts think on in and do it!!!!!!!!!! OUR CHILDREN THIER THOUGHTS THIER MORALITY IS IMPORTANT FOR AFRICAN FORWARD THINKING!!!!!!! THE CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE, WE DO NOT WANT THE YOUTH DISTRACTED WITH BOY FREIND I GIRL FREINDS AND WE CERTAINLY DO NOT WANT TO ADVERTISE PROVACOTIVE BEHAVIOURS.. THERE IS NO SHAME IN MORALITY?????? WHO EVER SUGGESTED THAT WITH PRIDE MORALITY AND PROTECTION OF OUR YOUTH THAT THIS IS A BAD THING????????? PROTECT OUR CHILDREN ; 'RESPONSIBLE THINKING IS IMPORTANT FOR THIER UPBRINGING. BEING A VIRGIN SHOULD BE A VALUED THING!!!!!!THE THOUGHST OF SEX SHOULD EB SO DISTANT SO FAR REMOVED FROM OUR YOUTH!!!! YOUNG LADIES IN AFRICA MUST LEARN TO CARRY THEMSELVES LIKE PRINCESES NOT COMMON LITTLE WHORES OR LEARNED IN PROVACATIVE CHARACTERISTICS. WE DO NOT WANT THOSE TYPES OF YOUNG LADIES FOR OUR FUTURE KINGS. ALL AFRICAN YOUTHS MUST LEARN TO EBA KING WITH HIGH STANDARDS HIGH MORALITY HIGH CHRACTER IN CHOICES OF WOMEN. WE MUST REJKECT THE HARLOT AND THE WHORE WE WANT VIRTUE QUEENS OF THE CONTINENT!!!. THIS WHY WE HATE RAPES WE HATE SODOMY WE HATE IMMORALITY WE HATE ILLITERACY IGNORANCY ANYTHING THAT UNDERMINES THE GREAT CHRACTERS OF OUR YOUNG BLACK CHILDRN SHOULD BE SEEN AS UN AFRICANS. WE ARE ALL DESCENDED FROM THE LINEAGES OF KINGS AND QUEENS WE ARE ROYALTY EACH AND EVERY AFRICAN. WE DESIGNED THE VIRTUES OF HIGH IDEALS CHARCTERISTICS THEREFORE IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE REVERT TO THE DICIPLINES OF THE PAST. LTEME SAY TO AFRICA BEFORE THE ADVENT OF THE EUROPEAN AFRICANS WERE VERY CONSCIOUS PEOPLE THEY WERE CONSIOUS OF THIER BELIEF IN THE ONE GOD" THEY BELIVED IN FAMILY THE EXTENDED FAMILIES AND THE UNITY OF THE PEOPLE"THEY WERE A PRNCIPLED PEOPLE', WHERE THEY LIVED FREE OPENLY THEY WERE NOT ASHAMED OF THIER BEING"!!!!!."THEY LIVED LIKE A PEOPLE WITH NOTHING TO HIDE NO MASK NO CLOTHES NO FEAR NO SHAME NO IMMORALITIES NO DECEIT NO CONCEIT VERY TRANSPARENT LIFE, NOT SIMPLE BUT THERE WAS VERY LITTLE INTRIQUE NO HOSTILTIIES CONFLICT COVETIOUSNESS WAS MINOR; ' THEY LIVED AND LOVED NATURE IT OFFERED THE PEOPLE PROTECTION THAT ALLOWED THE PEOPLE TO ENJOY THE LOVE AND FREENES THE PEACE'` "THE ALLMIGHTY" PROVIDED WITH HIS LOVE ; SECUING THE PEOPLES WELL BEING ,REWARDING THEM FOR THIER FAITHFULNESS ... THERE WERE NO RAPES IN THE DAYS OF IMMODESTY; TODAY IS DIFFERNT AND MENS MINDS HAVE BEEN POLLUTED BY FOREIGN IDEOLOGIES THAT ARE UN AFRICAN!! SO WE MUST PROTECT OUR YOIUNG WOMEN FROM EXPLOITATION RAPES AND THE NOW DARKER SIDE OF MANS THOUGHTS !!!!.;' THEY LOVED THE EARTH THEY LIVED WITHIN THE GUIDELINES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIVENESS. THEY CONTIUED THE RENEWABLE ENRGY SYSTEM THAT WAS ENTRENCHED IN THE AFRICAN PSYCE. THIS IS WHY THAT EVEN WITH THE DESTRUCFUL WAYS OF THE WEST AND THE DESTRUCTION THEY HAVE BORUGHT TO AFRICA !!; "AFRICA THEE CONTINENT', IS REPAYING THE INHABBITANTS OF THE LAND BY RENEWING ITSELF IN THEIR INTEREST .. "THE INTEREST OF THE AFRICAN PEOPLE IS SHOWING ITSELF NOW WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WERE ONCE BARREN DESOLATE LANDS IS NOW RFLOURISHING REPLENISHING ITSELF WITH ABUNDANCE TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA. "AFRICANS ARE ONE AND PART OF NATURE AND CREATION' WE ARE ALL LINKED INFUSED INTRICATELY TO CREATIONAND ITS HANDI WORKS'; THE AFRICAN KNEW THESE THINGS!!!!!! AFRICANS MUST NOT BE FOILED BY PROOGANDA BY THE BULLIES OF WESTERN GOVERNMENTS WHO ARE FAILING IN EVERYTHING THEY ARF DOING,, "AFRICANS MUST EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS TO DESIGN OVERSEE THIER OWN DESTINIES' WITH RULES LAWS THAT THEY KNOW TO BE RIGHT JUST AND WILL LEAD THE PEOPLE TO SALVATION!!!! THE WHOLE CAPITALIST ENTERPRISE IS FAILLING COLLAPSING WHY??? " THE 'ENSLAVERS THE PROFITEERS ARE LIVING OFF THE ILGOTTEN PROCEEDS OF SLAVERY EXPLOITATION EXTORTION IMPERIALISM COLONIALISM CORRUPTION BULLYISMS THEFT PIRACY MURDERS PILLAGING LOOTING PLUNDERING !! ALL THESE THINGS ARE COMMING TO AN END!!!!! THEIR NEGATIVITY THIER DISTASTEFUL EMPIRE IS COMMING DOWN AROUND THEM'. THIER NUCLEAR BOMBS ARE USELESS "THIER IDEOLOGIES OF WHITE SUPREMACY' IS FLAWED AND AND NOT APPLICABLE TO THE EARTH NATURE WHICH HAS ITS OWN DESIGNS THAT ARE MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN ANYTHING THE WEST CAN DEVELOP. THEY HAVE TAKEN A STAND OF BEING ANTI NATURE HEAPING DESTRUCTION UPON THE EARTH BUT THE EARTH IS AWARE OF THESE THINGS AND COMBATS IT IN MANY WAYS. "WE MUST SUPPORT NATURE THE POWRFUL FORCES THAT WE KNOW TO BE TRUE ALL THINGS ARE EQUAL THERE ARE NO SUPERIOR MEN OR ANY MAN GODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!