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South Africa To Decriminalise Sex Work

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South Africa on Friday said it will decriminalise sex work, hoping to tackle high levels of crime against women in a country with one of the world’s highest HIV caseloads.

The sale and purchase of sexual services will no longer be treated as a crime under proposed legislation put forward by the justice ministry.

According to advocacy groups there are over 150,000 sex workers in the country.

“It is hoped that decriminalisation will minimise human rights violations against sex workers,” Justice Minister Ronald Lamola told a press briefing.

“It would also mean better access to health care and … afford better protection for sex workers, better working conditions and less discrimination and stigma.”

South Africa has been hit by a growing wave of violence against women.

Police Minister Bheki Cele reported a double-digit increase in murders of women year-on-year between July and September with almost 1,000 women killed.

Rapes were also up 11 percent, with 10,000 cases during the period, he said.

“With sex workers no longer labelled as criminals, they can work much better with the police to tackle violence,” sex worker rights’ group SWEAT wrote on Facebook, welcoming the bill as “incredible news”.

Some recent gruesome incidents have shocked the nation, including the retrieval of half a dozen bodies, some believed to be missing sex workers, at a building in Johannesburg in October.

South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution is among the most liberal in the world, allowing for progressive laws on abortion and same-sex marriage, but sex work has long remained a divisive issue.

“For the longest of time we have been ignored,” Yonela Sinqu, a spokeswoman for the Sisonke National Movement of Sex Workers, told AFP, saying calls for decriminalisation started decades ago.

“It took, tenacity, resilience and a magnitude of stubbornness to continue raising our voices.”

The bill, which has been published for public comment, only deals with decriminalisation and does not regulate the sex industry — something Lamola said would follow at a later stage.

Parliament has to approve the proposed legislation for it to become law. The procedure takes a few months.

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