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Special Assignment: Survival Sex

Written by TVSA Team from the blog Special Assignment on 29 Aug 2012
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Coming up on Special Assignment this week:

Episode title: Survival Sex

Broadcast date: Thursday, 30 August 2012

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In the dusty streets of Diepsloot - an informal settlement north west of Johannesburg and adjacent to the affluent suburb of Fourways - impoverished residents continue to live in squalor.

With few basic services and high unemployment rates, this community - like so many other informal settlements across South Africa - remains plagued with social ills.

It’s also here where many young girls have resorted to prostitution for their daily survival. They sell their young bodies to men from the community in exchange for meagre hand-outs such as food and petty-cash.

Child prostitution is reportedly growing at an alarming rate in South Africa. The NGO, Network Against Child Labour estimates that 400 000 children are engaged in child labour and many girls are forced or sold into prostitution. Police statistics also paint a bleak picture: it’s believed that 28 000 children are engaged in prostitution across the country.

This Special Assignment investigation reveals the faces behind these shocking statistics. The show follows Melissa, a 17-year old girl, who dreams of finishing school.

She moved from rural Kwandebele to Gauteng after her mother’s death two years ago, in search for a better future. But she finds herself alone in Diepsloot, where everybody around her seems to be scrambling to survive. Melissa believes her only means of making it from day to day is through prostitution.

18-year old Karabo’s story is also one of despair. While her mother struggles to feed the family at home, Karabo's been lured into prostitution, seeing it as the only way out of the desperate situation she finds herself in.

Where is the Department of Social Development in the bigger picture? Why is society turning a blind eye? And what chances do our country’s young girls have if they’re forced into survival sex with their innocence lost?

Survival Sex is produced by Godknows Nare.



Special Assignment is on SABC3 on Thursdays at 21h00.



20 Comments

wesbuw
29 Aug 2012 11:50

There is  a lot in Krugersdorp also... and it is becoming common haaaai then we say we have a President and wat hapend to services and all

maud
29 Aug 2012 12:24

I dont totally agree to the decisions they took, there are many options they can choose from.
I never had a fancy upbringing myself , I worked at the cofee shop at the age of sixteen earning R30.00 rands per day.i was selling sweets and fruits, before i knew it i was back at school working fullday on weekends and work after three on weekdays. The road was not easy but i will tell you this ; prostitution was never on my mind.
my two brothers are lawyers today my little sister is running her own business.
with hard work and percivarance you will survive you just need to invite God in all what you are doing he will pull you through.
There is nothing that the goverment will do regarding this issue you just have to try and survive, selling your body is not an option here and it comes with consiquences and death sentence at the end of the day.

Minah
29 Aug 2012 12:28

There's also a lot in Midrand and Mamelodi

mangqezu
29 Aug 2012 12:47

These Diepsloot ones are worse cos I always passed that area on my way to Centurion from Fourways. There is some old house next to the road where there's a split for the roads going to Centurion and Hartees where they ply their trade.They see a car coming they raise their hands like bamisa itaxi and lift their skirts up in broad daylight its disturbing cos u actually see cars stopping for them .

I'd rather ngiyocleaner izindlu zabantu than sell my body shame

Friend
29 Aug 2012 12:51

@Maud, i agree with you, prostitution is a deadly  way out for these young gals, i mean really!! this is the worst choice & what do we expect Govt to do? get into our heads & ask us to make better choices. 

@17, one is in a position to know whats wrong or right. Some of these gals are orphans but i gues they do have  family members( besides their deceased parents), friends, social workers, neighbours who can help. 

Not even one of them has gone to see a principal at some school & ask for help to further their education. is selling their bodies to stinking old man a better life? will that get them education? instead they are applying for diseeases & unwanted pregnancies. 

Some of them even resort to drugs, but that is not the answer. What happened to ubuntu vele.  I know a few orphans who sought help from church leaders & members to further their education and now 1 is a Dr. the other one a PA & happily married. We can't blame the Govt for some of our failures, we gotta thinks with our heads not our vagin&&s. 

I pity these girls & wish i can help.

mangqezu
29 Aug 2012 13:00

Its really disturbing I mean like coming to the conclusion that you will make a living from lying on your back its sick

maud
29 Aug 2012 13:02

If you can offer these gils a job right now they will refuse to take the job.
Sometimes i think they want easy money,nothing in life its easy.
Orphans or no orphans mina i dont have parents my dear iam a mother,  father , wife , sister, aunty you name it.i always tell my simblings in life you became what you want to be.

there are places that you can go for help for education and places to stay if you are homeless but we choose to sleep on the streets and became prostitute.

If you have someone who needs help and mean serious help with bursaries or help with going to school , give them my details,

maud
29 Aug 2012 13:07

how much is it that they make , R20.00 ? what can you buy with R20.00?
I know to them it was an easy way out , i guess if you have never find your self in that situation you will never know.

Friend
29 Aug 2012 13:23

These girls are not serious about life & want to put the blame to being orphans,  Maud your story is an inspiration, i wish  Special Assignment can ask these girls to talk to you for tips & stop this rubbish. Some of them know where to go for help but pretend not to. Why can't their fill their  Vagin*&^ (Kimberley holes)  with education.

Mbaliem
29 Aug 2012 14:22

maud, where can I find your details???

maud
29 Aug 2012 15:02

send me a private message ,i will give you my details

mathatas
30 Aug 2012 08:36

those years.....i didnt have a job worse of all i was staying at Altrama flat (bosman pretoria)i will go to school .....later i will join those guys who sells fruits at VANDRE wald....i was happy with that BUT SHY at first.

maybe  i was a whore but i was not selling my body......Orphan or  not.....no matter how good looking you are you must work hard

ppl want good life without working hard.....i dont have syphathy for ppl like this.....i was selling fruits near sammy mark,,,,ppl who knew me they pass me like i dont exist But i did what i knew was  best for me.....WALAAAAAAA today some they wish to me....company count a lot .

Easy money comes with bad result,sell fruits,be a farmer,nanny,cleaner,be a Volunteer,they want to open LEGS n get paid.....?

Minah
30 Aug 2012 09:34

Bana ba ba rata ho kotiwa

Friend
30 Aug 2012 09:38

@Mathatas, thumbs up. (pressing the like button)

ayashah
30 Aug 2012 10:12

mathathas and maud your stories are so touching but have lessons on it may God bless you

maddie
30 Aug 2012 10:14

this thing of always blaming the government for the ills of society should stop, y r we always looking for answers from the government, in this situation however i do understand cos we talking about child prostitution.

sex for money is the norm, how u do it differs and will determine whether u get judged or not.

there are a lot of women out there with good qualifications and jobs but still they sleep their way to the top.

can't wait for the day an expose like this 1 is done especially in the corporate world so we can understand y ppl do it, the focus is always on the poor at the end of the day sex is sex n money is money

Friend
30 Aug 2012 10:24

These nondindwas think Govt will introduce sex monthly grants. @Makisto, yeah, why blame Govt for our failures, no more spoon feeding. I hope Govt  will one day stop giving social grants to teenagers, able bodied & healthy people, we are working our asses off for them to keep having babies & claim grants.  You must see them on the 3rd of every month kwi atms eDopsie, i bet one might think they are queing for work or varsity registrations.

myname
03 Sep 2012 13:04

Ja nhe niyakhuluma and nikhuluma iqiniso ma bloggers amahle.

Kandyfloss
03 Sep 2012 13:23

Our backgrounds make us people. Most of this prostitutes dont see or think like many would. They are troubled, derailed, uncultured,unutured demotivated etc. NOT by choice. Some have known this to be only effective way of making a living. I happen to interact a lot with disadvantaged people, their upbringin stories are so... gross. Lying on your back for money mus be difficult. Somethin is lackin inside them. They got no motivation, no self esteem. The government cant do a thing to them except sterilise them to break the cycle.

VusiK
03 Sep 2012 19:53

I have nothing to add.
Everything I could say ....
Anything I could say ...

is already said!


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