- When sex work is legal, workers are less likely to experience physical and sexual violence from clients and police.
- For this episode of our television show Health Beat, local sex workers tell of the abuse they face each day. Plus, our Mia Malan speaks to a worker from New Zealand (where the trade was decriminalised 20 years ago) as well as the Deputy Justice Minister, John Jeffery, and Tlaleng Mofokeng, who is the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health.
Mia Malan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bhekisisa. She has worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington, DC, winning more than 30 awards for her radio, print and television work.
Mohale Moloi worked at Bhekisisa as a television producer and health journalist from July 2021 to March 2024.
Jessica Pitchford is Bhekisisa's TV and multimedia editor. She's been a journalist since the early nineties and has reported on some pivotal events in South Africa’s political history, such as the country’s transition to democracy and the work of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission.
