A sex worker gestures flirtatiously to passing men as she stands outside a dilapidated multi-storey building on Nugget Street in Johannesburg’s Hillbrow area.
“It’s not like a hotel, [there are] no bookings. They just come, we do business and they leave,” she said while waiting to do “business”. It has been a slow day, she added. “If someone wants to come work here they can just pitch up,” she said, referring to the building where a room is shared by many women to earn an income through selling sex.
Although she knows prostitution is illegal in South Africa, she has been selling sex on the streets of Hillbrow for 12 years. The government’s proposed Criminal Law Amendment Bill gives little to no relief for her. , repeals the Sexual Offences Act and section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act to decriminalise the sale and purchase of adult sexual services.
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