Police 'pepper-spray, rape, abuse' sex workers

18 August 2016 - 08:58
By BIANCA CAPAZORIO

On August 9 - the day the country celebrated women's rights - sex worker Samantha April's naked body was found on a Cape Town beach, beaten and bloodied.She had been picked up by clients - a male and a female - and was later found dead, strangled and cut with a butcher's knife."While the president was commemorating the march to say that we as women have rights, another woman lay there, without rights and dignity," Sex Workers' Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat) spokesman Nosipho Vidima tol...

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