Job rights, health care and taxes: What life could look like for sex workers

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Mia Malan interviews deputy justice minister John Jeffery and UN special rapporteur on the right to health Tlaleng Mofokeng about what’s next for sex workers

is not about regulation; it is simply about decriminalising. Other [existing] laws and regulations will [still] apply. For example, labour laws will apply if people are working in a brothel. Municipal by-laws will apply when considering the location of brothels or people selling sex on the street. The next part of the process will mostly deal with the issue of regulation. It’s a complicated issue, because it involves three spheres of government: local, provincial and national.

where people can get it. The issue of health-care education is very important, because that will negate a lot of stigma.The effect of decriminalising sex work is that people can make money the way they want to make it because it’s not a crime — whether you want to grow vegetables and sell those vegetables and make an income from that, or you want to give massages, or you want to sell sex. My understanding is that if people are earning over a particular threshold, they would be liable to pay tax.

MM: If a sex worker feels they’ve been treated unfairly in a work environment, will they be able to go to the

 

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