Thandi Shezi, who was gang-raped by the police, testified, “I thought I’d done something that I deserved to be treated like that. She explained: “Sometimes I feel like I invited the trouble myself. Many high-ranking women in government who were rape victims during the apartheid years may have worried how they would be perceived if they came forward with their stories.13 Some women in government were former MK (Umkhonto we Sizwe) soldiers who had been molested by their own comrades in training camps in Zambia, Angola and Tanzania but may have not wanted to discredit fellow members in the African National Congress (ANC).