Coronavirus: South African sex workers want the Government to include them as an essential service during the lockdown (Video/Photos)

The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat) and Sisonke, the National Movement of Sex Workers, have called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to make urgent provision for the Temporary Employee Relief Scheme to include sex workers.

 

Sex work is work, and they too need help as their livelihood has been disrupted," the two organisations said in a statement. 

We also call on the president to take urgent steps and mandate the Department of Justice and Correctional Services to fast-track the sex work law-reform process and decriminalize sex work in order to address the evident exclusion of sex workers in accessing labor rights in times of need.