22 May 2015
Civil society organisations
including Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce say governments Operation
Fiela serves to entrench negative stereotypes and justify violence against sex
workers.
Operation Fiela was launched
in the wake of last month’s xenophobic attacks which resulted in seven people
being killed.
3 914 arrests has been made
during the operation, with 2 264 were of South Africans for crimes including the
illegal possession of firearms and drugs.
Sweat’s Cherith Sanger said
they believe that Operation Fiela directly will be targeting sex workers and
more so migrant sex workers will be more vulnerable through this Operation and
its implementation.
“The money that has been used
to implement this could be used better somewhere, for example we know what the
numbers are in relation to money being spent on policing sex work and we
believe this will further be a waste of
money that has been put into it,” Sanger added.
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