Prostitutes irk residents near swimming pool
The police and municipality have been called to act against prostitution taking place in the vicinity of the Benoni Swimming Pool.
The City Times visited the facility on Friday, and was met outside the premises with at least 10 used condoms and wrappers scattered in a driveway and along a small section of fence around the pool.
Western Extension residents Debbie Dos Reis and Soula Foord said prostitutes regularly use the alley to have sex.
One such encounter was recently photographed.
The residents are calling on the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality to erect a gate at the entrance to the driveway and for the police to come down hard on prostitution.
Foord and Dos Reis are concerned that the condoms and rubbish dumped on the outskirts of the pool pose a risk to people who walk in the area, especially children.
“Children who come and play soccer here are in danger,” said Foord.
“There is broken glass and children can get so sick here.”
A man who lives on Kemston Avenue, who did not want to be named, said prostitutes make a racket outside his home seven days a week.
He tries to quell their spirits by using a hosepipe to spray water on them.
Benoni CPF cluster chairperson Reza Patel said the “shadow of prostitution is the scourge of drugs”.
He added that the CPF is working with law enforcement to close down drug houses in the Benoni CBD and Western Extension.
Plans to do so have, in the past, come to nothing, as landlords knowingly rent their homes to drug dealers.
Brig Poobalan Subbiah, acting Benoni SAPS cluster commander, said the Hawks are mandated to build cases on prostitution and human trafficking.
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