'We're relying on handouts': How sex workers are coping during lockdown
Professions whose selling point is close physical contact are bound to have a tougher time than most when social distancing is the order of the day.Claire Keeton meets people struggling under the lockdown in the worlds of sex work and exotic dancing
31 May 2020 - 00:00
Suzy tightens her hoodie against the biting wind and dust in a yard in Khayelitsha. She walked here on Wednesday hoping to collect a food parcel, but it wasn't her turn...
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