Women who don't want prostitution decriminalised await Ramaphosa's response

In their letter, they said:"Dear Mr President, as women with first-hand experience of being prostituted in South Africa, we, the movement of the survivors of the system of prostitution – predominantly poor black women from disadvantaged backgrounds – wish to express our shock, concern and disappointment at your recent support of the full decriminalisation of the sex trade at the opening of the newly built court in Johannesburg.

"Our leader and founder wrote an open letter to you last year stating our concern regarding the adoption of a resolution by the African National Congress to work towards decriminalising the exploitation of vulnerable women and girls – referred to by you as 'sex work'. In closing, the letter draws attention to the South African Law Reform Commission report issued in 2017, which recommends that SA does not enact a law that fully decriminalises the sex trade. One of its two key policy recommendations was that SA follows the"Nordic" or"Equality Model", which has been successful in ending the exploitative systems of prostitution.

Mickey Meji, the founder of Kwanele, a survivor-led prostitution movement, outside the Durban High Court on Thursday."The Nordic or Equality Model has been successful in ending the exploitative system of prostitution. It has gained momentum since it was first pioneered in Sweden in 1999, followed by Norway, Iceland, Canada, Northern Ireland, France, the Republic of Ireland and Israel.

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