November 13-15, 2001: hundreds of demonstrators protested...

November 13-15, 2001: hundreds of demonstrators protested outside a South African court, demanding the death penalty for six men accused of raping a nine-month-old girl.
Armed soldiers and police escorted the six into the court in the north-western town of Upington to face charges of raping and indecently assaulting the baby.
Wealthy housewives, politicians and grandmothers from the townships have flooded talk-radio shows with angry calls demanding the death penalty and castration for the six men accused of raping a baby girl, whose story has united an often-divided nation in collective outrage.