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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Teen sex worker sells her body for R10 a time Sbongile Dimbaza,
Independent Online (IOL) News, August 20 2006 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/teen-sex-worker-sells-her-body-for-r10-a-time-1.290141 [accessed 21 July 2011] At the tender age of 13, when most
girls are still cuddling their dolls and braiding their hair, Suzy has been a
prostitute for two years. She is paid R10 for sex. But included in the
deal is an extra R5 for her younger brother Fred, who waits quietly for her
outside the door while she is with "a client". Zille on drugs, decay, and child abuse This is an edited extract from a speech delivered by Helen
Zille, leader of the Democratic Alliance, to an
anti-drug march in Vrededorp, www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=87153&sn=Detail [accessed 21 July 2011] Child abuse is a complex problem,
but it is clear that the rampant drug and alcohol abuse is a major factor
driving it. When parents abuse drugs and alcohol, they neglect their
children. These children are left to their own devices, at the mercy of those
who prey on children. And, when
children are neglected and there are drug dealers on every street corner, it
is not long before they are caught up in a cycle of drug and alcohol abuse
themselves. Without the means to pay for drugs and alcohol, these children
often resort to selling their bodies on the street to buy drugs. And this is
what is happening here in Vrededorp, an area that
has become infamous for having the highest rate of child abuse in the greater
Johannesburg region. The Teddy Bear
Clinic in Johannesburg is currently caring for a 9 year old boy who was
selling his body on Vrededorp's streets to pay for
his addiction to crack cocaine. His is only one such case. Children are being sold for sex right under
the noses of the police. I am told that the corner of Caroline and Vygie Street is notorious for child prostitution. It is
also happens to be located next to the Johannesburg Headquarters of the
Flying Squad. ***
ARCHIVES *** Runaways
- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless Rebeccas Community -- This is for anyone
aged up to 13 years old who is thinking about running away www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm [accessed 21 July 2011] Here are the best phone numbers to
call …They are Confidential - which means they won't tell anyone about your
call unless you want them to talk to somebody for you, or you are in
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doesn't matter what time you call In
South Africa, call 08000 55555 ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - SOUTH AFRICA [PDF] ECPAT International, 2007 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/AF/Global_Monitoring_Report-SOUTH-AFRICA.pdf [accessed 21 July 2011] The occurrence of sexual
exploitation of children through prostitution, child pornography and
trafficking for sexual purposes has been acknowledged by the South African
Government through their commitment to the Stockholm Agenda for Action and
other international conventions. Despite this commitment, progress towards the
reduction and elimination of commercial sexual exploitation of children
(CSEC) in the country has been slow and incidents of such violations against
children continue to grow. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/south-africa.htm [accessed 23 December
2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There are reports that child prostitution is increasing. There have been reports that some cities
are becoming destinations for tourists seeking sex with minors. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61593.htm [accessed 23 December
2010] CHILDREN - Child prostitution continued during
the year. NGOs provided shelter,
medical, and legal assistance for child prostitutes and a hot line for
victims of child abuse. The government donated land and buildings for various
shelters for victims of sexual abuse, street children, and orphans. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The law
prohibits the commercial sexual exploitation of children, sexual intercourse
with children under 16, and permitting a female under 16 to stay in a brothel
for the purpose of prostitution. The country was a destination, transit, and
point of origin for the trafficking of persons, including children, from
other countries in Africa, Asia, and Human Rights Reports » 2000
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/af/788.htm [accessed 21 July 2011] CHILDREN - Child prostitution is on the
rise, primarily in Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 28 January 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/southafrica2000.html [accessed 23 December
2010] [39] While noting the efforts of the
State party to implement legislation, policies and programs to prevent and
combat the sexual exploitation of children, the Committee remains concerned
at the high incidence of commercial sexual exploitation. In the light of
article 34 and other related articles of the Convention, the Committee
recommends that the State party undertake studies with a view to designing
and implementing appropriate policies and measures, including care and
rehabilitation, to prevent and combat the sexual exploitation of children. The Curse of Child Prostitution Vimbai Komani,
The Herald, allafrica.com/stories/200904100077.html [partially accessed 21 July 2011 - access restricted] Child prostitution, however, is
not only about little girls as young boys are also increasingly being
targeted. The International
Organisation for Migration has identified this as a growing problem in Chiredzi where boys are leaving for Prostituted girls’ parents not found Nivashni Nair, Jun 18, 2008 This article has been archived by World Street Children
News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 July 2011] Their parents did not try to find
them and it seems the only person who wanted them was the pimp who sold
them. Durban police have not found the
parents of two girls, aged between eight and 12, whom they rescued two weeks
ago. A man had allegedly been selling them on the city’s notorious Mahatma
Gandhi Road (formerly Point Road) for sex. The girls lived on the streets and
the police have not established where they come from. They are being cared for at a safe house
but, according to those who assist street children, the likelihood of the
girls returning to the streets is high. “Right now, these two little girls
do not realise that they have been saved — they
feel like they are being punished. One has to understand the mentality of a
street child to understand why they run away,” he said. “I am almost certain that these
girls are missing the friends they bonded with on the streets and they also
miss the money they were getting from the pimp.” - sccp Zille on drugs, decay, and child abuse This is an edited extract from a speech delivered by Helen
Zille, leader of the Democratic Alliance, to an
anti-drug march in Vrededorp, www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=87153&sn=Detail [accessed 21 July 2011] Child abuse is a complex problem, but
it is clear that the rampant drug and alcohol abuse is a major factor driving
it. When parents abuse drugs and alcohol, they neglect their children. These
children are left to their own devices, at the mercy of those who prey on
children. And, when children are
neglected and there are drug dealers on every street corner, it is not long
before they are caught up in a cycle of drug and alcohol abuse themselves.
Without the means to pay for drugs and alcohol, these children often resort
to selling their bodies on the street to buy drugs. And this is what is
happening here in Vrededorp, an area that has
become infamous for having the highest rate of child abuse in the greater
Johannesburg region. The Teddy Bear
Clinic in Johannesburg is currently caring for a 9 year old boy who was
selling his body on Vrededorp's streets to pay for
his addiction to crack cocaine. His is only one such case. Children are being sold for sex right under
the noses of the police. I am told that the corner of Caroline and Vygie Street is notorious for child prostitution. It is
also happens to be located next to the Johannesburg Headquarters of the
Flying Squad. SA's child abuse statistics incoherent www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/social/0,2172,160830,00.html [Last access date unavailable] More than 70 young girls in the
past year have been rescued from prostitution in the towns of Atlantis, Gateways to exploitation Globe and Mail, Nov. 10, 2007 -- Source: ECPAT
International www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/article796077.ece [accessed 21 July 2011] Kids ‘primed for sex jobs’ Aly Verbaan,
City Vision, 01 November 2007 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 July 2011] Pimps are apparently already
recruiting their unsuspecting victims on the city’s streets, promising them
better lives after the World Cup and stringing them along with cash and even
drugs in the meantime. A social
worker, who declined to be named, told People’s Post that children, who will
not even be teenagers by 2010, are being lured into prostitution by organised crime syndicates that plan to reap foreign
currency by selling the youngsters to sex tourists. But it is not only poor or
neglected children who are in danger: Reports from local police stations
around the country warn of teenagers being abducted at shopping malls or
while walking home from school. Their
kidnappers’ intentions are to “prepare them for the World Cup”, according to
the reports. Cops bust child brothel Noor-Jehan Yoro Badat, Kashiefa Ajam and Sheree Russouw, Independent Online (IOL) News, February 17 2007 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/cops-bust-child-brothel-1.315563 [accessed 21 July 2011] Police have bust two men for
allegedly running brothels in It was alleged that at least 10 children
aged between 10 and 14 years old were paid for sex. The men, aged 24 and 28, were arrested in Emndeni and Dobsonville Gardens
on Monday. Xaba said one of the men was from Venda
and the other from KwaZulu Natal. They have appeared in the Protea Magistrate's Court and have been charged with
statutory rape. Beach loos perpetuating crime Independent Online (IOL) News, October 5 2006 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/beach-loos-perpetuating-crime-1.296406 [accessed 21 July 2011] Angry Blouberg
residents have called for the demolition of the beachfront toilets, which
have become associated with child prostitution and drug peddling. Locals gathered for a heated meeting in
Table View last night to discuss the public toilets which beachfront
residents claim have become a favoured spot for
adult men to pick up young boys for sexual favours. Teen sex worker sells her body for R10 a time Sbongile Dimbaza,
Independent Online (IOL) News, August 20 2006 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/teen-sex-worker-sells-her-body-for-r10-a-time-1.290141 [accessed 21 July 2011] At the tender age of 13, when most
girls are still cuddling their dolls and braiding their hair, Suzy has been a
prostitute for two years. She is paid
R10 for sex. But included in the deal is an extra R5 for her younger brother
Fred, who waits quietly for her outside the door while she is with "a
client". Poverty, drugs driving kids to sell sex on street Derrick Spies, Safety and Security Reporter, The Herald,
August 10, 2006 povertynewsblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/south-africa-poverty-drugs-driving.html [accessed 21 July 2011] Kids as young as 12 are selling
sex in Central in exchange for accommodation, drugs and money. Children running away from poverty and abuse
in the poorer areas of Police spokesman Captain Verna
Brink said a number of children, some as young as 12, had been found during
police raids conducted in Central over the last two weeks. Some of the children had been reported
missing by their families in the northern areas, while others come from more
affluent suburbs, and appear to have become involved in prostitution to
support a drug habit.” Street children as young as 8 being lured into
prostitution by tourists The Herald Online News, 26 July 2006 www.oijj.org/news_ficha.php?home=SI&cod=34665&pags=0&idioma=es [accessed 21 July 2011] Street children, some as young as
eight years, are increasingly being lured into prostitution by local and
foreign tourists in the Knysna area. Police say they are aware of the
problem but poverty and a culture of silence are obstacles in their attempts
to prevent child prostitution. Knysna Child Welfare has conducted
several workshops on child trafficking in the Garden Route and reports that a
trend has emerged that street children are being used for prostitution, drug
smuggling and other crimes. Chairman Trix
Marais said there was a “vicious cycle of silence.
Their parents and the community know about it but they keep quiet.” City child sex shame Fiona Gounden, Independent
Online (IOL) News, May 27 2006 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/city-child-sex-shame-1.279306 [accessed 21 July 2011] Thousands of girls and boys, some
as young as 10, are selling themselves on Children's groups and police are
now saying the problem is out of control and that many are not selling
themselves for survival but rather just for money to buy luxury items, cellphones and other teen status symbols. Crack is sweet in Cape Town Theuns van der Westhuizen, Die Burger, Cape Town, 2006-05-05 www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Crack-is-sweet-in-Cape-Town-CBD-20060504 [accessed 21 July 2011] He told the horror story of street
children employed as drug mules between the shacks in the squatter camp of
some 200 inhabitants and the station roof, empty buildings in the Culemborg area being occupied by squatters, and child
prostitution in exchange for drugs. Sex workers and clients 'made to pay bribes' Karyn Maughan,
Independent Online (IOL) News, May 24 2006 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/sex-workers-and-clients-made-to-pay-bribes-1.278865 [accessed 21 July 2011] These children are given R30 to
have sex with adults, but claim that police demanded 10 times that amount not
to arrest them. "Sometimes they
pick us up and drive with us for a while, and then they say they will put us
in the cells with the killers if we don't give them money. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report on implementation
of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Loophole may free sex predators Kashiefa Ajam,
Independent Online (IOL) News, January 29 2005 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/loophole-may-free-sex-predators-1.232639 [accessed 21 July 2011] Loopholes in the Child Care and
Sexual Offences Act might allow the suspects to escape the law. This was
because the legislation states that the main witnesses in these cases must be
the victimized children themselves but, since most are drug addicts, they
would be considered unreliable witnesses. Our children are selling sex to
survive Philda Essop
and Ashley Smith, Independent Online (IOL) News, November 9 2005 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/our-children-are-selling-sex-to-survive-1.258345 [accessed 21 July 2011] A shocking child sex exploitation
study has revealed how Human Trafficking Stretches Across the Region Moyiga Nduru,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=24338 [accessed 23 December
2010] Children's rights groups like the
Cape Town-based Molo Songolo
estimate that 28,000 children engage in prostitution in www.thebody.com/content/art29187.html [accessed 21 July 2011] A report to the UN Commission on
Human Rights says that No Laws Against Child
Prostitution Jo-Anne Smetherham, Daily News, Dec
18, 2003 www.stopdemand.org/afawcs0112878/ID=88/newsdetails.html [accessed 21 July 2011] Children are increasingly being
forced into prostitution in Baby Rapes Shock Barnaby Phillips, BBC News, 11 December, 2001 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1703595.stm [accessed 21 July 2011] It is the latest in a series of
rapes of baby girls - some of them involving children less than one year-old,
which has left South Africans reeling with horror. Every day the newspapers bring awful revelations:
a nine-month-old girl gang-raped by six men; an eight-month-old raped and
left by the roadside. The government
is trying to dispel a widespread rumor - that having sex with a virgin cures
AIDS. Traditional healers, or
witchdoctors, are blamed for spreading this idea, and encouraging child rape. 38 000 child prostitutes in SA South African Press
Association SAPA, www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/38-000-child-prostitutes-in-SA-20040511 [accessed 23 December
2010] BBC News, 23 November, 2000 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1037215.stm [accessed 21 July 2011] VIRGIN
SEX MYTH - The report
says the southern African myth - that Aids can be prevented by having sex
with a virgin - has also contributed to the increase, as has an increased demand
among foreigners for sex with black children.
Children, particularly from 40 000 child prostitutes - Street children vulnerable to
sex trade A. Bolowana, 2004 www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=283&fArticleId=2198903 [Last access date
unavailable] “I started walking around with
nothing to do. That's when I met this man. To me he looked like an ordinary
man, a nice guy. First he asked me if I'm hungry. Of course I'm hungry. He takes me to a restaurant near
the parlours, buys me food - hamburger and chips. I
think: 'This is a treat.' "And then he says: 'You must
be tired. Why don't you come with me?' So I go home with this guy old enough
to be my grandpa." That was the start of a sexual
relationship that spanned more than 10 years. Besides the
"emotional" connection he could not explain, Eric said he would go
back for the R10 he got "to do this little thing which disgusted
me". "This was my easy way of
getting money," he said. Despite his disgust with the man - he had also
molested two other friends of Eric's - he still defends him. "He wasn't
like other paedophiles that would rape and molest
children." Mean Streets - Child Prostitution In Nandi Pointer, Essence, Oct, 2001 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 July 2011] An alarming number of adolescent
girls, many living in the impoverished townships of Child Sex Industry Booms In LaborNews, 23 July 1996 www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/37a/029.html [accessed 21 July 2011] Study On Black Child
Prostitution Calls For Government Action South African Press Association SAPA, 27 May 1997 pangaea.org/street_children/africa/safrsex4.htm [accessed 21 July 2011] Black child prostitutes walking
the streets of Abduction 1996: August Cape Town
Central Business District Rebirth Africa Life on the Continent, www.rebirth.co.za/a_true_story_of_how_one_girl_was_traf.htm [accessed 18 September 2011] Alicia, fourteen years old, on
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