A sex worker complains about the arrests and the violence that comes with it.
At around 10am on a Monday morning in Johannesburg city centre Thandeka* stands waiting for clients. At the back of her mind are her two children at home in Soweto. Their school fees are outstanding and she has no money to fill their lunch box. Thandeka is a sex worker but she has not been able to work much of late, she says, because the police are arresting and harassing sex workers day and night.
Thandeka is a sex worker but she has not been able to work much of late, she says, because the police are arresting and harassing sex workers day and night. She claims police officers regularly pepper-spray the women and bundle them into police vans to detain them at the police station. It is not just the arrests she complains about, but the violence that comes with it, violence which often extends to rape. She claims she has been raped by police officers more than once in her sex-worker career.
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