Attention shifts to sex workers' clients

By Murray Williams
Staff Writer

The City of Cape Town has launched a vice squad to crack down on prostitutes working the streets of the city's suburbs - and their clients can also expect harsher treatment.

As part of the city's new strategy, it also plans to arrest the sex workers' clients, instead of just giving them spot fines as is the current practice.

JP Smith, the city's mayoral committee member for safety and security, said today that the officers had been seconded from the city's law enforcement department to form a vice squad.

The crackdown has already started: 18 prostitutes were arrested along the main road through Bellville, Goodwood and Parow on Friday night. This week the squad plans to focus on the city's other notorious red light areas, such as Main Road in Claremont and Kenilworth, Koeberg Road, Wetton, Somerset West and Kuils River.

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