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ex workers demanded their trade be legalised,
One said she was able to purchase a house through her sex work.
Sex workers are often victims of crime, but can t report it.
Around 200 sex workers took to the streets of Johannesburg on Thursday to demand sex work be decriminalised. This is what I wear to work, Dudu Dlamini, clad in hiking boots and a long dress, told AFP. No high heels or short skirts. It requires expertise and skills you have no idea about, she added.
Constance Mathe, who has been in the profession for 16 years, said: I purchased my own house out of sex work.
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JHB-Hillbrow walk pushes for safe and legal sex work in SA
By Lesego Makgatho
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Sex workers have been fighting for the right to work freely and safely in South Africa.
Advocates/activists, political figures, the general public, and over one hundred sex workers today took part in the walk from Johannesburg CBD to Hillbrow in solidarity with sex workers in decriminalising sex work.
Nomsa Mazwai, the activist-academic-artist founder of an NPO called #FunkItImWalking, an organisation whose sole aim is to make the streets safer for women to walk at any time of day in any condition, joined forces with organisations Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and Sisonke South Africa to foreground the plight of sex workers in a bid to decriminalise sex work in the country.