Unemployed single mothers resort to desperate measures

Desperate unemployed Eastern Cape mothers are looking to prostitution as their last hope of providing food for their children. Some told the Dispatch they had ended up with multiple partners because of promises that the men would look after them, while others said depression caused by their situations had resulted in them becoming aggressive towards their children.

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