Prostitutes active in Roodepoort

On the – please note – morning of 17 October the Record visited Roodepoort CBD to investigate whether Stokoe Street still is the preferred spot for picking up a sex worker.

At approximately 10.15am the journalist on a scooter approached a woman standing by herself in aforementioned street. Not wanting to embarrass himself by accidentally soliciting sex from a non-sex worker, he asked the woman where the girls were who usually stood there.

She quickly responded that she was one of the girls. Pretending to be both a student doing research as well as hinting at possibly becoming a client, the Record asked her various questions.

It turned out that she was a mother of two and travelled all the way from Kagiso to ply her trade in Roodepoort.

“Business is better here and easier. I can not get any other job. Don’t you have any job for me? Can I do little job for you?” she asked, but the Record was unsure what the “little job” was that she wanted to do.

She told the Record that “we can do it” in a car, behind a small building in the veld across the road or in a park nearby.

For a service that included “everything” the cost would be R100. Oral sex alone would cost R50. The woman became suspicious of the journalist’s camera bag and quickly ran off.

Another woman’s prices were similar but both the women refused anal sex and kissing. As the Record drove off, the first woman could be seen in the rearview mirror speaking at the window of luxury four-wheel drive bakkie.

The Record then headed back to the office but not five minutes away in Van Wyk Street, waiting for the passing vehicles at a stop street a man motioned over the journalist, who promptly obliged. With an accent that sounded Nigerian, the journalist was offered heroin at R50 for a small bag and one gram of the drug Cat for R300.

Sex and drugs could be obtained openly five minutes apart in the ever-decaying Roodepoort CBD.