The arrest of a 32-year-old Bonteheuwel mother for selling naked photographs of her four-year-old daughter on the internet has raised crucial questions with regard to acts of survival.
So too the 20-year-old student who twice lost her job and who turned to sex work to feed her child and unemployed parents, and learners in Ravensmead who have sex with older men to earn money to feed their families.
While nothing can excuse the sale of naked pictures of a child on the internet, people are turning to crime because of poverty and the high unemployment rate.
Western Cape Social Development MEC Sharna Fernandez said: “It is safe to assume that these social circumstances, such as unemployment, poverty and Covid-19, create a desperate need in impoverished communities for their mere survival.
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