1998 documentary (South Africa) about child prostitution

[The Lawspeaker]

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Two 14 year old drug-addicted girls "working". What makes it even more heartbreaking is that those girls are our kin, and I assume that their accent is Afrikaans.
If you look at one of those girls you might see a lesion on her face and I guess that neither one of them is still alive by now.


EDIT: it does not embed but you can watch it anyways when you click on it.

[Loki]

Tragic

[Lulletje Rozewater]

SEXUAL COMMERCE AND THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
In most countries of the world, prostitution takes a number of different organisational forms and the conditions endured by prostitutes (in terms of payment, throughput of clients, health and safety, their risk of violence and harassment, the degree of control they exercise and so on) vary according to the setting from which they work. There is often a very distinct hierarchy within prostitution, with higher priced 'call girls' and 'escorts' securing (relatively) greater financial rewards and being exposed to (relatively) less risk, violence and intimidation, and street workers and prostitutes in cheaper brothels being more intensively exploited and abused.
In the past, apartheid geographically segregated the strata of this hierarchy in Southern Africa. The regime honed both the rhetoric and hypocrisy of racism and moral conservatism to their ultimate conclusions, resulting in a situation in which, despite prostitution and 'interracial' sex being outlawed, white men had limited access to an 'elite' of white and coloured prostitutes in cities and ports and more or less unlimited access to extremely vulnerable and abused black prostitutes if they crossed the border into Swaziland or Bophuthatswana.
Although the activities associated with prostitution (soliciting, procuring, brothel keeping, etc.) are still illegal in South Africa, the policing of prostitution has been dramatically relaxed in recent years and all the tiers of the sex industry's characteristic hierarchy can now be found alongside each other in major cities such as Cape Town and Durban. These tiers are described below.
Entrepreneurial Prostitution
In both Cape Town and Durban, there is a small elite of women and men who prostitute themselves entrepreneurially, making relatively good money from their 'businesses'. These are people who own or rent the property from which they work and solicit by placing advertisements in the "massage" columns of the small advertisement sections in local papers. They often cater to very specific 'markets' (for example, offering to provide domination and other specialist services), and their businesses operate in much the same way as those of entrepreneurial prostitutes in the west (see O'Connell Davidson, 1995 for an account of such businesses in Britain).
Entrepreneurial prostitutes need a certain amount of capital to set up in business independently (they need to pay rent in advance, buy clothing, props, install a telephone, pay for advertising) and this means that they are relatively economically privileged.
In South Africa, it follows from this that such prostitutes are typically over the age of 18 and that they are generally white. They charge 'first world' prices (upwards of 350 Rand per session) and cater to a clientele made up primarily of locals and foreign and domestic businessmen.
Independent Bar/Club Based Prostitution
There are a number of bars and nightclubs in Cape Town and Durban which serve a clientele of seamen, domestic and foreign businessmen, locals and tourists. The owners of such bars/clubs benefit financially from prostitution by charging the clients (sometimes also the prostitutes) an entrance fee and by selling extremely high priced drinks. They do not involve themselves in the details of prostitute-client transactions, though some do employ women on a casual basis to perform striptease acts during the course of the evening.
The prostitutes who solicit from such settings are usually independently working women and teenagers who do not have the capital to set up the kind of business described above and/or who do not rely upon prostitution as their sole source of income. However, some are being 'worked' by pimps who send them into clubs/bars to solicit custom. Because the clientele of such clubs and bars is predominantly comprised of seamen, the women and girls who work from them are referred to as 'dockrats'.
We visited seven such nightclubs in Cape Town and Durban. Some were reasonably smart, some were very shabby, but all were highly functional. No passing visitor would be in any doubt as to the purpose of these establishments and every female who enters them is assumed to be sexually available, for a price.
Groups of men, often seamen, sit drinking heavily together at tables surrounding a dance floor. Women and girls display themselves on this dance floor until they are approached and invited to join a man or group of men at a table

[Lulletje Rozewater]

Two

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One hostess club manager showed us an advertisement he had recently placed in The Herald, a newspaper which covers the whole of the Eastern Cape Province.
It read as follows:
Earn big money. Escorts and strippers needed for very upmarket
and only internationally recognised.hostess club in Cape Town. Transport and accommodation provided.

http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs...ild_prost5.pdf