Prostitutes angers residents

Residents at Glenwood and Umbilo in Durban South Africa are reported to have been angered by prostitutes whom they demand should be removed from the area.

Daily Sun reported that now the residents are fed up, demanding that the sex workers be removed as they have lowered property prices.

Residents also complained that their friends no longer visited them.

Ward committee spokesman Ben Madokwe (37) said eThekwini Municipality should find a private and decent place for the sex workers to operate.

Madokwe said: "They can't be let free to wander the streets and our doorsteps like hungry vultures with their short skirts that reveal bums. When you tell them to move away from your home, they swear at you.

"They are teaching our kids filth and that's not acceptable!"

Madokwe said the invasion by the magoshas has affected the two neighbourhoods badly.

"People don't want to buy our houses any more," said Madokwe.

"We can't even have visitors in our homes because the magoshas harass them.

"The moment they stop at the gate, the prostitutes run towards them and start moving their bodies inappropriately to attract them."

"We are not against their business, but there has to be a decent place in which they can operate.

"We have reported the matter to the municipality several times, but nothing has happened."

Tozi Mthethwa, spokeswoman for eThekwini Municipality, said the council was aware of the matter.

Mthethwa said the city's safer cities unit and Metro cops have been working closely with the United Nations Embassy, the SAPS and the National Prosecution Authority.

"The aim is to establish programmes that will identify prostitution hot spots and help rehabilitate the young women in need of assistance," she said.

KZN police spokesman Brigadier Jay Naicker said the cops were also doing their best to sweep the streets clean.