The only solution to problems created by the "prostitution industry" is to end it, argue opponents as we kick off a two-part debate.
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/ 7 December 2008
During the 16 Days of Activism it is with great sadness, fear and outrage that we remember the atrocities of violence against women.
In 1976 we were toddlers. Although both of us are black and female, our lives were profoundly different then. When freedom came in 1994, one of us was a 21-year-old studying in the United States. The other — age 19 — stood in a long, laughter-filled queue under a brilliant April sky in Natal. Promise Mthembu and Sisonke Msimang reflect on the young people who changed the face of history, and the state of the youth today.