SAMSOSA: Remember the boy-child when it comes to preventing and responding to sexual abuse

Dirk Kotzé, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a family dentist and family friend in Balfour (Johannesburg), and Rees Mann from South African Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse (SAMSOSA) speak to Gillian Pillay from SABC News about about the self-harm, shame and culture of silence sexually abused boy-children have to endure.



Video courtesy SABC News, 1 December 2019.
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Kotzé was advised not to name his abuser, Izak Andreas Geldenhuys. And as Kotzé says, he was not the only boy Geldenhuys abused. If you, too, were sexually abused by Geldenhuys or know someone who was – or have more information, please contact us.



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