Charlize Causes a Storm in Capetown

Model-turned-actress Charlize Theron has caused a storm of controversy when a series of adverts that she filmed. raising awareness of the rape crisis in South Africa, were banned. The two adverts - which draw attention to the ever-increasing rape figures in the model's native country - met with a hostile audience and were eventually banned by the country's advertising authority. In one of the commercials Theron says 'Every 26 seconds a woman is raped in south Africa...but are there any real men out there who care?. When a group of men complained to the ASA that the advert implied all men in South Africa were rapists, it was taken off the air.