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POLICE ARREST 15 SEX WORKERS

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PIGG’S PEAK – It appears the police are getting tougher on women suspected of engaging in sex work in Pigg’s Peak.


Sex work is one of the booming businesses according to recent concerns raised by the municipality through the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mzwandile Ndzinisa.
During night time, the town becomes a hive of activity such that it is said to have more young people at night than during the day.


This past weekend, 15 people who had been suspected of engaging in sex work were rounded up by the police. Others, however, managed to flee from the police as soon as they noticed that their friends were being rounded up by a local police unit known as Lunyazi.


Women who had travelled from as far as Manzini to allegedly engage in sex trade were also apprehended in the town centre.
Ripped jeans and revealing tops covering only the breast area, were among the reasons the women were arrested for suspected prostitution. They are said to have been wearing clothes which were deemed too revealing and were also charged with loitering.


Out of the 15 women, 11 were adults while the other four were minors with the youngest aged 14 while two claimed they were 16 years old another aged 17.
They were picked up from around the town center on Friday night by members of the Lunyazi Task Team, which patrols the streets in the evening. Some of the women had been wearing mini-skirts while others wore ripped jeans with half tops.


The women were then taken to the police station where they were locked up and only released in the morning after paying an admission of guilt fine of E60.
However, the minors were not as lucky. One of the women is said to have been arrested for lifting her skirt high above the knees, exposing  her underwear.
The younger females were warned that they would not be released until their parents showed up.


Superintendent Khulani Mamba, the Chief Police Information and Communications Officer, confirmed that some people had been taken in during an operation by Lunyazi.

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