Six girls and women aged between 14 to 21 were on Tuesday rescued from a dilapidated building in Joburg known to be a brothel and allegedly owned by Nigerian nationals.
The rescue of the young girls whose ages are between 14 and 21 was carried out on Tuesday after the EPWP (Expanded Public Works Programme) workers in the city, informed the police that the brothel had been housing young women.
A United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report showed that in 2018 dowry deaths accounted for 40 to 50 per cent of women’s murders in India every year