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Selling Sex in Cape Town. Sex Work and Human Trafficking in a South African City


Chandré Gould in Collaboration with Nicole Fick (SWEAT)

(July 2008)



  • Introduction: French

  • Acknowledgements  (PDF 39kb)

  • Acronyms  (PDF 485kb)

  • Tables and Graphs  (PDF 26kb)

  • Executive Summary  (PDF 261kb)

  • CHAPTER ONE: Introduction  (PDF 80kb)

  • CHAPTER TWO: Research Methods, Research principles, Mapping the industry, Qualitative interviews, The survey, Conclusion  (PDF 85kb)

  • CHAPTER THREE: Snapshots of the industry, Street-based sex workers, Brothel-based sex workers, Brothel owners and managers, How big is the industry?Drug use, Conclusion  (PDF 136kb)

  • CHAPTER FOUR: Working conditions, Working conditions of brothel-based sex workers, Earnings, Fines, Working hours, Contracts, Leave, Te right to refuse clients, Working conditions for street-based sex workers, Condom use and availability, Conclusion, Selling Sex in Cape Town  (PDF 108kb)

  • CHAPTER FIVE: Sex work and the police, Police harassment of street-based sex workers, Challenging the criminalising of sex work, Conclusion  (PDF 71kb)

  • CHAPTER SIX: Clients and their demands, Who are the clients of sex workers?, Market demand, Client violence and abuse, What do clients want? The demand for under-age girls, Children and brothels, Street-based child prostitution, The demand for foreign sex workers, Conclusion  (PDF 135kb)

  • CHAPTER SEVEN: Trafficking: Policies, definitions, myths, The South African response, Legislative and policy frameworks, The problem of defining trafficking, Research methods and numerical estimates, Models for researching the sex work industry, Critiques of the anti-trafficking discourse, Conclusion  (PDF 190kb)

  • CHAPTER EIGHT: Recruitment and coercion, Recruitment, Coercion and force, Recruiting agents, Why did you go into prostitution? Earnings, Exploitation and abuse, Conclusion  (PDF 190kb)

  • CHAPTER NINE: Evidence of trafficking, Indicators and definitions of trafficking, Chandré Gould in collaboration with Nicolé Fick, Findings, Analysis of results, Conclusion  (PDF 158kb)

  • CHAPTER TEN: Conclusion, The size and nature of the sex work industry, Methodology, Trafficking or labour Exploitation? The power dynamics in sex work, Is trafficking a response to demand?  (PDF 77kb)

  • CHAPTER ELEVEN: Recommendations, South African Police Service and Portfolio Committee on Safety and Security, National Prosecuting Authority, South African Law Reform Commission and Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development, Department of Health and Portfolio Committee on Health, Department of Social Development and Portfolio Committee on Social Development, Department of Home Affairs  (PDF 63kb)

  • APPENDIX ONE: Addressing the ethical problems  (PDF 28kb)

  • APPENDIX TWO: Members of the academic advisory panel  (PDF 28kb)

  • APPENDIX THREE: Focus group script  (PDF 53kb)

  • APPENDIX FOUR: Questionnaires  (PDF 76kb)

  • APPENDIX FIVE: Survey methods  (PDF 55kb)

  • APPENDIX SIX: Sampling method: Indoor survey  (PDF 135kb)



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