Having grown up in a racially segregated country like South Africa, it was somewhat challenging to offer sex services to people I was not familiar with. I used my body to be defiled by different men from all over the world for money. Those clients came in different shapes and…...
Meet Our Intern: Savannah Estridge
Masters student and American citizen Savannah Estridge joined our team as an intern in June this year. Savannah is originally from Brooklyn, New York and is currently completing her Masters Degree in Global Affairs, concentrating on human rights and international law, at New York University. Estridge has built up experience…...
Working with the youth to prevent sex trafficking
Ikamva Youth, an NGO that “equips learners from disadvantaged communities with the knowledge, skills, networks and resources to access tertiary education and/or employment opportunities once they matriculate”, recently invited Embrace Dignity to conduct two workshops on human trafficking. The workshops involved Survivors like Grizelda Grootboom who shared their personal stories…...
Poverty-stricken Nontando forced into prostitution
written by Thabo Tshelane, social media and communications coordinator at Embrace Dignity When *Nontando (*not her real name) heard that Ntombovuyo Mtamo (a prostituted women) had died while sleeping on Voortrekker Road in Bellville she thought about her own life. “I don’t have an ID and haven’t been home for…...
The Global Sex Trade: Criminalise Buying, Decriminalise Selling
Bernedette Muthien (centre), an independent facilitator and researcher, recently addressed a Roundtable on Gender which formed part of the Parliament on South Africa’s High Level Panel on Legislative Review in Johannesburg. With her here is Ms Akuol De Mabior, an Embrace Dignity board member. On 27 July Ms Bernedette Muthien[1],…...
INFO FACTS SHEETS ON PROSTITUTION
We advocate for partial decriminalisation – or the Equality Model – wherein the sellers are decriminalised and offered a way out of the system through comprehensive exit programs, and the buyers and third parties are criminalised: INFO FACT SHEET – OUR POSITION Current Legal Framework on prostitution in SA: INFO FACT SHEET…...
