SEX workers have made themselves at home in Rispark and Kibler Park, despite residents’ complaints that they are unwelcome and unwanted in the area.
Numerous attempts by residents to have the groups of women permanently removed from Peggy Vera, Klipspringer and Gazelle roads failed and they just keep on coming back.
Petrol attendants at garage in Kibler Park told a reporter from the COURIER that the group of women are a dangerous bunch. A man who asked to be identified as Charles Motaung, out of fear that the sex workers would come after him, said he has witnessed the women tearing at each other with beer bottles during a fight.
“These women are dangerous, even to one another. If they see that you are taking photos of them, they will throw rocks at your car,” warned the petrol attendants. According to the men, they know some of the women from the township and some of them are married.
“These prostitutes have a strategy which they use to rip off clients, or anyone who stops their vehicle near them. If they get close enough to your car, they all jump in and demand that you must pay the full ‘house price’ or they won’t get out of your car.”
On May 18, at about 12:00, a client of the sex workers was ambushed. He was bundled into his vehicle and told to drive to a garage to withdraw money to pay them. The man allegedly asked for help from an officer who was also at the petrol station, but the women told him to “voetsek”.
When COURIER reporter Zesuliwe Hadebe was surveying the operations of the sex workers, a SAPS Gauteng K9 vehicle passed the group on Gazelle Road, at 12:05, without so much as a glance in their direction.
