No ideology is worth the lives of sex workers

The debate around decriminalising sex work is due to get even more heated, and form unlikely alliances among its opponents. But it’s time SA got this done

29 January 2023 - 00:00 By SALLY SHACKLETON, nosipho vidima and rebecca walker

Over the next two or three years South Africans will be subjected to a lot of conflicting information about sex work, or as some call it, prostitution...

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