A protester holds a placard as Dutch sex workers demonstrate to demand the right to go back to work, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in The Hague, Netherlands March 2, 2021.A protester holds a placard as Dutch sex workers demonstrate to demand the right to go back to work, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in The Hague, Netherlands March 2, 2021.
Sex workers believe the bill will help to protect their dignity and ensure their safety. Government is currently working on draft legislation that will allow sex workers to operate legally in the country. The movement’s Katlego Rasebitse says this is long overdue, “A number of sex workers in South Africa, instead of them admitting that I was engaged in this freely, they opt to say I’m being trafficked. Then the law changes from being a sex worker to human trafficking then they make sure she is kept in a safer place and treated nicely. But three days after release, they go back to do the same work, evading arrest again, they will keep on doing the same thing.