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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Johnson in Soshanguve

‘There’s no protection’: South Africa faces Covid legacy of sex for money

Dimakatso is a young mother from Soshanguve, Pretoria.
Dimakatso is a young mother from Soshanguve, Pretoria. Photograph: Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni/The Guardian

A couple of months into the Covid lockdown in South Africa, Dimakatso, 25, resorted to sleeping with an older, married man for 1,000 rand (£50).

It was the first time she had had sex for money. She did it because she needed to feed her two children, aged five and eight; she was unemployed, and her mother, the sole earner in the household, had lost her job.

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