What Have You Done, South Africa?

Foreword

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, South Africa?

South Africa became a democratic country in 1994 and as the saying goes, The rest is History. Twenty-four years later some of us who went to the polls to cast our democratic votes for the first time have the same lament as Charles Mahlangu, South Africa, what have you done?

The excitement of 27th April 1994 has faded into a dark mist of fear, gloom and uncertainty about our future and especially the future of unborn citizens of this country who will one day inherit this whole mess while the powers that be continue to make promises which are obviously from consciences that no longer feel guilty for seeking just one more term in parliament or office at the cost of the gullibility of the masses.

Is it possible that Charles is over-exaggerating the situation or has everyone else simply resigned themselves to the status quo? My verdict is that Charles is spot on and that the contents of this book are nothing but the truth which is born from careful observation to which the majority have cast a blind eye. As much as merely reading this book cannot redeem us from the grim realities of what has become of our country, I believe that it is in our power to demand a government which is prepared to change and hear what we, the voters would like to see happen in a truly democratic country, a government which is consultative with those who put it in power.

The politicians did not vote themselves into parliament. We are the ones who did and rightfully for we are the ones who gave them a mandate to represent us. Therefore, it makes it our democratic right to not ask but demand accountability from them. If they turn us down -- as if we’re begging for something that only they can give -- then as Mark Twain says, "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." If we continue to hope for the best without demanding the best, one day we will look back and realize how much damage has been done in the name of democracy, a democracy which has in reality become a total dominance and a display of utmost arrogance.

The ANC which has been the ruling party since 1994 has successfully turned what was a dream into a total nightmare. Other than the total annihilation of apartheid everything else is going in the direction that only they see as normal and everyone else who sees it differently is considered to be ‘unthankful and pro-white.’ Their style of leadership is nothing short of a script from the cowboy movies where if you don’t agree with their below-average way of doing things you only have two options but with the same end result: Either you shoot yourself in the head or they do it for you. The ANC style of leadership is a simple ‘mob autocracy.’

The ANC government made South Africa into a secular state - a secular state is a state which purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, faith in God or any god. What is confusing to me is that since according to the government, belief in God is not paramount at all, why then when presidents and parliamentarians are sworn into service, do they continue to reiterate the statement, So help me God? Sometimes they even put their right hand on the Bible - the very book which asserts that there is actually a real God somewhere, and this God believes in honesty, morality and justice. Is it possible that the God they’re referring to is not the God of the Bible? The God who deems life to be sacred, including the lives of unborn babies who are deprived the opportunity which they, the law makers and perpetrators were given by their parents? The cost that we, the ordinary citizens of this country, have paid and continue to pay daily through our silence and total obeisance to a completely dysfunctional government is getting to breaking point and though not acceptable, many have lost respect for the laws which govern the country. Anarchy, rebellion and anger have become the new norm.

In just 24 years South Africa came from being just another country in southern Africa to being officially the world’s capital of Murder, Rape, Child and Woman abuse to mention a few. No less than 18000 people are murdered annually in our country, 42000 women are raped each year and 1 in 3 children is abused each day. These crimes are not committed by the politicians themselves but these crimes are indirectly encouraged by the laws that the politicians changed, laws which obviously had been working just fine and served as deterrents to prospective law breakers. The Bible clearly states that, Where there is no vision people perish. The disturbing result of the removal of those laws which they say were barbaric can be seen in our jails which are literally overflowing and courts of law that cannot cope with the ever increasing numbers of law breakers. An old idiom says, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. Bert Lance said, That’s the trouble with government: Fixing things that aren’t broken and not fixing things that are broken.

What happened to our schools where teachers were legal guardians and could exercise the rights of chastisement which the Bible deems fitting for godly upbringing of children. Life in general has degenerated to an all-time low since 1994. Contrary to the Promises of a better Life for all as promised by the politicians, the quality of life for the majority of South Africans has become a total nightmare as basics of life such as bread, milk and tea are becoming a luxury which most citizens go without on most days.

I challenge you to read this book as if you were called to defend the leaders of our country against Charles Mahlangu’s ‘accusations’ and I bet you that you too will find yourself asking the same question, What have you done, South Africa?

Let me take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Charles Mahlangu for writing this sad but true to the core book about the present state of our beloved country, South Africa. When Charles writes he puts himself fully into his work and not only for the reader to get his pointed view but also his soul and emotions. Charlie, thanks for yet another masterpiece, only this time it is like a charge sheet by which this present generation of those who choose to be silent will be judged. I take your stand and I also want to know: What have you done, South Africa?

Montoedi Kotu

Senior Pastor at The Freeway Tabernacle in Soweto

Table of Contents

Foreword

Book Review

Introduction

BOOK ONE

1. Legitimizing Prostitution

2. What About Human Trafficking?

3. Abortion: The Challenge. A Prayer of Repentance

4. Re-defining Marriage, Gender and LGBT

5. Sexual Crimes. Prayer of Repentance of Rape and Molestation

6. Precious Princess: Disclose!

7. Contemporary Sexual Expectations of Young Women in South Africa

8. Let Us Value Our Nation’s Resource: Females

9. Young Girl, "What Do You Benefit

From Sex?"

10. Condoms: Endorsement in Parliament

11. What have we done? Orphans

12. Legalizing Prostitution.

Let’s call them professional sex workers.

13. Chivalry

14. Sexual Disease and the South African Black Female. Incurable. Asymptomatic

15. Strategies Against HIV/AIDS: South Africa and Uganda

16. Pornography, the Scourge

17. Unwed Mother. Absent Father

18. Killing of White Farmers

19. State Capture

20. Sell-by Date

21. Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE)

22. It Must Be Said…

BOOK TWO

23. Antithesis of the Founding Fathers.

A New Secular Image

24. ANC’s Redefinition of Democracy

25. Whites: Prayer of Repentance Over Apartheid. If Whites Would…

26. Sins and Confession of Repentance of the Ruling Party

27. Who Owns South Africa?

28. Rape Crisis of Females in Exile During the Struggle Years

29. Hall of Fame (Struggle Heroes)

and Hall of Shame (Struggle Villians)

30. Oh, Christian Member of the ANC

31. In a Land of Ubuntu: This Constitutes Revival

32. Never Again - Never Again

in the Rainbow Nation

33. New Reformation of Political Dispensation

34. Our BRICS Associates

35. Mugabe

36. The Powerless South African Voter.

The Electoral System

37. A Word to the Righteous.

The Movement of the Righteous

38. Prayer of Repentance

References:

Restorative Justice

The Way of Salvation

Book Review:

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SOUTH AFRICA?

What have you done South Africa is a comprehensive volume of very pertinent, poignant and controversial issues and challenges which are often not frankly discussed yet lethal in our country. The author (Prof Mahlangu) passionately laments the dearth of morality and bemoans the proliferation of inhumanity in our society. This volume covers a whole range of themes, inter alia: prostitution, abortion, pornography, HIV/AIDS, BBBEE, Rape, etc. Each and every topic discussed is well researched both quantitatively and qualitatively, and thoroughly analyzed. What have you done South Africa is a clarion call to all leaders in politics, government, business, religion and community to accept responsibility and accountability. It is a compassionate plea to all South Africans to love, care and cherish one another. While most of the challenges discussed are relevant to a new post-Apartheid era (Post 1994), the author also reminds us how things used to be during the Apartheid epoch. He takes us back to 1912 when the African National Congress was established. He reminds us that the early leaders of the political movement were men of faith and religion. Actually, the first six presidents were ordained ministers of the gospel with strong convictions about God and religion with its impact on education. It is for that reason the movement chose Enoch Sontonga’s lyrics and music. This is a far cry from national anthems of the nations of the world. This anthem is a praise and petition to God to bless the whole continent. The rest of the world focuses on particular borders. Sontonga calls God to bless and hover over all of the continent (not only South Africa). Furthermore, this is an exclusive anthem since it alone is the anthem that calls on God the Holy Spirit: ‘Come, Holy Spirit’ (seven to nine times). This typically Protestant Catholic Christian world view was reflected in the philosophy of the early leaders of the movement compared to the more Communist minority parties and the Communist flavoured ruling party and many religions of the current Captains of the land.

There is a perception that we have thrown God out of the Constitution. This nation is composed of God-fearing Protestants and Catholics by the dozens of millions. I would like to congratulate Prof Mahlangu for this seminal work. I praise him for his hard work, convictions, chivalry and probity. I highly recommend this book! Read it and it will transform your perspective forever.

Dr. Mazwe Majola

Founder – Worldwide Institute of Leadership and Development (WILD)

Founder and Senior Pastor- Rejoice Bible Church

Introduction

What Have You Done, South Africa?

The triumph of South Africa is 350 years of White rule becoming a democratic state for all races. The triumph of South Africa is President De Klerk announcing to the world that prisoner Nelson Mandela would be released from prison. The triumph of South Africa is the liberation movement living abroad within the continent and from other parts of the world, returning home to be part of a new political order. The triumph of South Africa is the previous ANC military wing Umkhonto Wesizwe eventually taking over the defence force. The triumph of South Africa is the meeting of minds from over one hundred organizations to join talks with the National Party and the ANC to debate the way forward regarding the transfer of power of the former to the latter. The mega triumph of South Africa is the general elections of 1994. The triumph of South Africa is Mandela leading the ANC to become the first president of a democratic nation reflecting all races of Africans, Coloureds, Indians and Whites. The triumph of South Africa is the adopting of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa in 1996. The triumph of South Africa is Mandela winning the approval rating of the globe as man of peace and revolutionary turned nation-builder.

Credit is given to President De Klerk for being part of the apartheid government that worked towards the new non- racial democratic nation. President De Klerk was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to a peaceful transfer of political power.

Credit is given to Oliver Tambo for being ANC President in exile: he became the longest serving president having served for 23 years. The ANC sent Tambo to settle in abroad to mobilize opposition to apartheid. He lived in London. In 1961 Tambo secured military training and camp facilities for Umkhonto in several countries including Tanzania and Zambia. Tambo is best known for his assignment to travel abroad to help set up the ANC’s mission in exile and mobilize international opinion against the apartheid regime. He is instrumental in setting up the United Front, an umbrella group for South African antiapartheid groups seeking international support for the imposition of sanctions on South Africa.

Credit is given to Nelson Mandela as a man who refused to be broken down by prison. He would refuse to be racist. He would model to hostile Blacks the art of forgiveness to Whites. He would convince Blacks that reconciliation in the nation was non-negotiable. Mandela made South Africans feel proud of belonging to the rainbow nation. His legacy as first president was peace and stability in the country. He united the country. Where heads of state are known to be arrogant, Mandela would not be accused of being conceited. Mandela could not be accused of exploiting others with his political power.

This first president was a faithful democrat. He fulfilled his office as defender of the constitution. He was granted the Nobel Peace Prize for his role for bringing peaceful democratic political changes in the country.

Credit is given to Thabo Mbeki as the second president who maintained the rainbow nation image in the country. He is best known for his personal conviction that the armed struggle needs to be replaced by negotiating. He was part of the ANC leaders who met with leaders of the nationalists, White intellectuals and church leaders in Senegal to debate and discuss the future of the ANC’s armed struggle and democratic society in the country.

Thabo Mbeki was forced by his own party at the ANC conference to resign after losing the attempt to run for the third term as President of the ANC. He was forced by the ANC NEC to step down from office nine months before completing his second term. He was removed shamefully by his own party. The ANC conference put Jacob Zuma in power as President of the ANC.

Thabo Mbeki criticized the scientific consensus that HIV does cause AIDS by organizing his own scientists who were equally denialists. His policy on dealing with HIV/AIDS would be legendary in the country, the continent and the world. A Harvard study revealed that as many as 300 000 died on account of AIDS denialist health policies.

President Jacob Zuma was head of state from 2009 to 2018. The third presidency was full of controversy. The third presidency ushered in a culture of corruption and tender thieves gripped the country.

BOOK ONE

Chapter 1

Legitimizing Prostitution

The prostitute defames the glory of femininity: Where the Creator designed her body to be a masterpiece of Creation, the prostitute devalues God’s masterpiece through sexual immorality.

Prostitution is a form of classic slavery: males enslave the female of the species. The prostitute willingly offers herself as a slave. The prostitute puts herself in the slave market.

The prostitute sins against the family of the male customer: she exploits financial resources that belong to the family. She misappropriates the property of the wife and children of the male customer. With each act of sexual intercourse, the prostitute steals what belongs to the family of the male customer.

The prostitute violates herself by blood covenant. According to 1 Corinthians 6:18–20, a person becomes one with the partner by blood covenant through every act of sexual immorality. The prostitute engages in sexual relations with one male customer and becomes one by blood covenanting: she becomes one with the blood history of the male customer. She becomes one by blood covenanting with the next male customer and his history of sexual intercourse. She becomes one with the third and fourth male customer, who has his own sexual history of blood covenanting with females that have become integrated into his life, and that he is mixing, by blood covenanting, with the current prostitute.

She is not merely opening her thighs to entertain this male customer: she is blood covenanting with him and his entire sexual history. Every act of sexual intercourse with this prostitute is historic: she becomes one with the entire history of the male customer. When the historic sexual intercourse has taken place and she has become one with the entire sexual history of this one male customer, she has become irreversibly one with him. She cannot undo the blood covenanting. She carries it in her body for life. There is no way for her to extricate the blood mixing by covenant that she carries in her system. Consequently, every act of sexual intercourse is a historic exchange of blood covenant: she has the highest probability of STI transmission in the world, she can spread HIV by more than 37%, and she can pass on Gonorrhoea. She will spread Syphilis, Chlamydia, HPV, Genital Herpes, Trichomoniasis, Hepatitis B and Chancroid.

No one else in the world can match the efficiency of one infected prostitute: she will spread several infections or viruses as speedily as sex buyers are willing to acquire her services. She will potentially spread untreatable viruses. She is most definitely infected, especially if she has not been tested for infection. She is a fatal attraction. Her trade is death. Many of her victims are in the cemetery: babies, children of all ages, adolescents, young adults and older adults.

The most tragic and often unmentioned truth about prostitution: it devalues a precious sexual commodity. Every act of sexual intercourse with male customers devalues the prostitute’s sexual commodity. When she engages in sexual relations for any length of time she devalues her precious commodity. She does not add value to her sexuality through each encounter with a male customer: she is the loser. The prostitute does not grow, develop, mature or become more expensive through sexual engagement with males. On the contrary, she loses her precious sexual commodity with each sexual encounter.

So how many male customers has she engaged with sexually? Ten? Then, she has devalued by that much. How many male customers has she accommodated in one year? Fifty male customers? She has devalued her precious sexual commodity. The value of her sexual commodity does not increase. It decreases. Her precious commodity does not get better. It is a myth that she will get better with age. She devalues substantially with each sexual act. It is not true that she remains the same: with each sexual encounter with a male she devalues her precious commodity. She was created to lose value through sexual immorality. She was created to lose her commodity through immorality. She was created to lose value if she is immoral with her precious sexual commodity.

The most tragic and often unmentioned truth about female sexuality: it comes with a high price. Female sexuality is a precious commodity for all females. God gave females a precious commodity that comes with corresponding accountability for guarding it. When a female of any age, 10, 15, 20, 30, or 40 does not regard her sexuality as a precious commodity worth guarding, she depreciates her sexual value with each sexual encounter at any stage of life.

The girl who fails to see her sexuality as a precious commodity will depreciate her precious sexuality by offering her body for sexual pleasure. Her sexuality does not grow up, mature and develop as she grows; she will depreciate with each sexual encounter at any stage of life. The female cannot stay the same: if, as a teenager, she experimented with sexual relations with males she will devalue her sexual commodity. If, as an adolescent, she experiments with sexual relations, she depreciates her value. The more she engages in liberal sexuality with males, the more she erodes her value. The more she indulges in an unlimited sexual lifestyle with unlimited males, the more she diminishes her precious commodity.

An adolescent female, who at 16, or 17, or 19, has multiple sexual partners to gain experience with males, does not add value mentally, emotionally or psychologically: With each encounter, she devalues her precious sexual commodity in ways that cannot be reversed. She has substantially diminished her sexual commodity with each sexual encounter: her sexual value depreciates with each sexual encounter.

The prostitute is drained of precious sexual commodity with each sexual encounter. She does not gain sexual experience from each sexual customer: she is left drained. Every male customer peels something off her precious body. Then another male peels something precious from her precious commodity. There is no actual gain for the prostitute: she is gradually peeled off, piece by piece, by unlimited males who offer no investment to her; they only drain precious sexual commodity.

The prostitute exhausts her precious sexual commodity with each sexual encounter with a male customer. It is the male who drains the prostitute and not vice versa. Over one year of prostitution she has exhausted her valuable commodity. Over two years and over 5 years and beyond, the prostitute has badly exhausted her sexual commodity.

So how much has the prostitute gained financially from her business over five years? She has drained what can never be restored by dissipating valuable precious sexual commodity. How many thousands of Rands has she saved from her trade in five years? She gives away pieces of her precious sexual commodity with each sexual customer. So how much has the prostitute saved financially from her business annually over ten years? She has dissipated what can never be restored by draining valuable precious sexual commodity.

Listen to a Prostitute:

Prostitutes do not love their jobs: they survive.

Prostitutes have no relationship with buyers.

Prostitutes globally say, ‘You hate doing it, however you have to make ends meet’.

Prostitutes do not enjoy the trade.

Prostitutes report feeling stuck.

Prostitutes are led to substance abuse – heroin, crack etc.

Prostitutes report long periods of depression.

Prostitutes, globally, feel dirty.

Prostitutes report: ‘It feels like prison’.

Prostitutes report: ‘You have to blank everything out.’

Prostitutes say, ‘You have to forget what you have done.’

Prostitutes have been forced to prostitute themselves by their need for food: they trade sex for food.

Prostitutes have been forced to prostitute themselves by their need for accommodation: they trade sex for a place to sleep.

Prostitutes have been forced to sell their bodies for drugs.

Prostitutes report that men who pay for sex are the most violent toward women.

Many prostitutes would like to leave the industry. Lack of choice is a major cause of prostitution.

Prostitutes record a high incidence of rape.

Prostitutes serve clients sex to get crack and heroin.

Prostitution takes away access to humanity.

Prostitutes attempt suicide.

Little is said about the damage, violation, suffering and torment on the body and mind of a prostitute. Death, suicide and murder are routine in the industry.

Prostitutes suffer humiliation at the hands of sex buyers, pimps and traffickers.

Prostitution destroys a person’s identity, health and self-worth, leaving one without safety or a rightful place in the world.

Prostitutes can initially enjoy their power over the male sex buyer.

Prostitutes suffer from having to deaden their feelings.

Prostitutes find men disgusting.

Prostitutes hate their work.

Prostitutes do not have the courage to say they make a living as sex workers.

Prostitution abounds with coercion and abuse.

Many prostitutes underestimate the impact of prostitution on their well-being.

Prostitution and its stigma lead to violence, abuse and trauma.

No occupation in the world does as much harm as prostitution.

Prostitution offers no guarantee of safety.

Prostitution opens the doors to trafficking.

Prostitution leads to dissociative disorders, depression, post-traumatic stress disorders and anxiety.

Prostitution is extremely damaging.

Will You Urge Your Daughter to Become a Prostitute?

Do Members of Parliament say to their daughters, ‘Consider a wonderful career in the sex industry’?

Do parliamentarians tell their relatives to consider the wonderful professional opportunities in the sex industry as sex workers for life?

Do law-makers persuade their daughters, sisters, cousins and nieces that the sex industry is a wonderful world with fantastic state benefits?

Do politicians tell their beloved female relatives that there are decent jobs worth exploring in the sex industry?

Ask a medical doctor who defines sex work as a profession, a genuine career or vocation, if he would encourage his daughter to go into the sex industry and explore the many opportunities and state benefits.

Ask the policeman who defines prostitution as sex work if he would encourage his daughter to go into the sex industry since there are a multitude of state benefits for life.

Ask the nurse who defines sex work as a profession if she would motivate her own flesh and blood daughter to consider the wonderful world of brilliant opportunities in the sex industry, which offers state benefits for life.

Ask the members of parliament, and the ruling party particularly, if they would encourage their own daughters, sisters and nieces to enter the wonderful world of the sex industry since there are brilliant career opportunities and state benefits for life.

Would a male or female university graduate encourage their own daughter to establish a career in the wonderful world of the sex industry along with state benefits for life? Would a long-distance driver, as a father, ask his daughter to consider a career in the sex industry with state benefits for life?

Prostitutes from Nigeria, Romania, Nicaragua, and Bangladesh do not want their daughters to be in the sex industry. Even prostitutes in the Netherlands, where prostitution is legalized, do not want their daughters to be in the sex industry. Prostitutes in New Zealand, which has the best services in the world, do not want their daughters to be in the sex industry. Prostitutes in Germany, a country with exceedingly great numbers of prostitutes all legalized by the state, do not want their daughters to be in the sex industry. Prostitutes in Jamaica, China, Kenya, Venzuela, England, and Afghanistan do not want their daughters to be in the sex industry. Prostitutes in India, Lesotho, and the United States of America, Canada, Cuba, Columbia, Russian Federation, Uganda, and Ghana do not want their daughters to be in the sex industry. Prostitutes in Australia, with all the protection afforded them, do not want their daughters to be in the sex industry. Prostitutes in Hawaii, Greece, Ukraine, Swaziland, Thailand, Italy, and Ukraine do not want their daughters to be in the sex industry.

The Netherlands is legendary as an Oasis of prostitution. There are 25,000 to 50,000 prostitutes operating in the Netherlands. Amsterdam has between 8,000 and 11,000 prostitutes, 75% of whom are foreign. There could be as many as 15,000 child prostitutes. The Netherlands has not been able to handle the invasion of under age prostitutes or the influx of victims of human trafficking, predominantly from Eastern Europe and Nigeria. The price a nation will pay for legalizing prostitution, is that it becomes vulnerable to human traffickers. Netherlands is conceding that legalizing prostitution has been a failure.

Prostitution is legal in Germany in every respect. There are 450,000 prostitutes in Germany, 90% of whom are foreigners from Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. Most do not speak German. These prostitutes service 1 million men daily. Germany has found the prostitution industry unmanageable. England and Germany agree that legalizing prostitution leads to increased human trafficking.

The Nordic Model, an approach to prostitution used in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Sweden (1999) is based on a feminist concept that frames prostitution as an inherent part of the male patriarchal hegemony. Male sexual exploitation of females is based on the male of the species’ inherent drive to sexually exploit the female as a male patriarchal sexual right over the female. The Nordic Model sought to announce that Sweden believed prostitution was fundamentally degrading and dehumanizing to women and therefore, Sweden legislated prostitution by decriminalizing the sex worker while criminalizing the sex buyer; protecting the rights of the sex worker while criminalizing the sex buyer. The state guards the welfare of the sex worker.

Global reports have announced the effects of the Nordic Model: sex workers and escorts have moved away from the streets and gone underground. The sex buyers have gone underground to continue to pursue sex workers. This compounds the potential for vulnerability and exploitation.

France adopted the Nordic Model in 2015. Canada is due to adopt the Nordic Model. While the Nordic Model has been hailed as a success, concerns have been raised to the contrary: In Sweden the Aliens Act, which forbids foreign women from selling sex in Sweden and is used by the police to apprehend non-Swedish or migrant persons suspected of selling sex, reveals the limitations of the rhetoric of female victimization with clients framed as perpetrators: if the seller is foreign, she is to be blamed, and can be punished with deportation. In Norway, where it is legal to sell sex, women involved in prostitution are victims of increased police, neighbourhood and border control which stigmatizes them and makes them more vulnerable. The increased control that the Norwegian police exert on prostitution markets so as to identify clients include document checks on women involved in prostitution so as to find illegals among them. Raids performed in the name of rescue often end with vulnerable women who lack residence permits being deported from Norway.

New Zealand

New Zealand’s model for legalized prostitution is heralded as the best in the world:

Safe human rights for sex workers.

Protects sex workers from exploitation.

Promotes the welfare and occupational safety and health of sex workers.

Creates an environment conducive to public health.

Protects children from exploitation in relation to prostitution.

The best working conditions in the planet.

The signing of contracts for sex workers.

Sex workers get paid weekly.

Sex workers have good relations with police.

It is legal to work in brothel, work for yourself, work at home, or work from the web.

Best legislative framework in the world.

Sex workers have control of what they do.

Sex workers have access to police.

A Rebuttal to New Zealand’s Lauded Prostitution Laws:

The New Zealand model has been criticized for eventually not having been as great as originally touted. Prostitution laws affect neighbourhoods and places of employment negatively. Sex work is exploitation of females who are regarded as the slaves of buyers.

Former prostitutes tell MPs that the 2013 Law has failed. A delegation of prostitutes, followed by their lawyers, appear before a Selected Committee:

Former prostitutes call for freedom from sexual exploitation. Prostitution has wrecked their lives. Many prostitutes suffer from post-traumatic stress disorders. Troubled upbringing brought them to prostitution. The only solution is to prosecute buyers in order to help prostitutes out of the industry. Once the Government had made legal that which we as a society fail to see as legitimate, once government had defined prostitution as work, the Prostitution Reform Act not only encouraged more men to buy sex, but transformed prostitution into an acceptable, even attractive job for young, poor women in New Zealand.

The FFSE (freedom from sexual exploitation) is asking the New Zealand government to:

1. Consider a national plan of action to combat street prostitution

2. Pass a law which makes purchasing sexual services illegal

"Our motivation is to call for laws that protect the women of our country. Research clearly shows that sexual violence and physical assault are the norm for women selling across all sections of prostitution.

Prostitution Reform Act has played into the hands of pimps and brothels owners and enabled them to get a face of respectability while legally preying on women they control."

One Poll with 1,000 respondents: 66% want brothels banned in residential areas. Street prostitutes plague communities. Cities throughout New Zealand have been trying to deal with negative fallout as a result of politicians having passed this law. It’s time they now fixed the law. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1712/S00262/ban-street-prostitution-residential-brothels-poll.htm Over and above this report to MPs: Neighbourhoods like Auckland routinely experience prostitutes displaying their business in schools, sports grounds and facilities. Residents publicly picket against prostitutes who fight for equal space to solicit clients. Residents refuse to give prostitutes freedom to solicit broadly in public spaces. Business people oppose prostitutes who insist on their right to solicit for clients in front of shops competing for space. Residents do not extol, nor do they appreciate, the freedom of sex workers to do business in public places. Prostitutes are seen to be given what ordinary citizens are not given. Residents do not happily entertain the notion of semi-nude, erotically attired sex workers displaying themselves in public for their children to see.

France

France follows the Nordic Model. Steps towards the Abolition of Prostitution are:

Offering Exit Strategies to sex workers.

Decriminalizing sex buyers.

Sex workers can go to the street to sell sex.

Sex workers can sell sex conditionally.

Ultimately, the French want to rid society of prostitution. Reforms are aimed at gradually making room for the eventual elimination of all forms of prostitution in the country. The French will create job opportunities for females to eliminate their need to do sex work.

The French model does not have a track record that can be tested. The remaining weakness of the French model is that it sanctions and endorses prostitution by allowing people to engage in sexual relations for money. The weakness of the French model is that it still reduces the value of the female by celebrating prostitution as a deserving trade, when buying sex reduces the dignity of the woman in any circumstances. As long as the woman is allowed to use her body for sexual purposes, she perpetuates centuries of male patriarchal hegemony over females. Regardless of how the sex worker is allowed to make her income from sex, she compounds the image of slavery and moral depravity: there is no removal of the stigma of moral depravity in prostitution. A sex worker may be labelled a professional, but the stain of indecency will never be successfully removed from prostitution: this is not a decent job.

In her book on Prostitution, Prostitution and Gender Inequality, Maddy Coy of the London Metropolitan University writes: ‘Prostitution creates gender inequalities between women and men. The gender inequality arises from women selling their bodies, so men can have almost unrestricted access to them. This is a humiliating and degrading relationship between two people. It is a male demand driven industry. Sexual physical violence as well as psychological harm is endemic in women’s experiences of prostitution. This is regardless of whether the setting is indoor or outdoor, legal or illegal.’Consider what former prostitutes have written to parliament in New Zealand. According to Gulliver prostitutes live in constant fear of being beaten by gangs and robbed of their earnings. She also says prostitues live in fear of being sexually abused and live in fear of being killed. They constantly fear rape and gang rape. Prostitutes use alchohol as a coping mechanism and substance abuse as a way of switching off while working. They suffer from traumatic stress disorder and and need therapy. (stuff.co.zn) – Aimee Gulliver 2013, Ex-prostitutes call for law change, November 21 2013

What Are The Advantages of Legal Prostitution?

Not even one legitimate advantage. Prostitution has been officially cleansed of the evil it represents to the female gender. Whether government calls it sex work or professional work, both clients and prostitutes know that prostitution is the most devastating way in which one human being can dehumanize another. Where there is human trafficking the male officially pays to perform gross acts of violence on the female. In legalized prostitution the female volunteers her body to be used by males, violently, for payment. Legalized prostitution is self-inflicted where human trafficking is coercion of the same thing by another person. Communities know that legal prostitution is still stigmatized, for no law of the land can remove the stigma of sexual depravity.

No amount of liberal eradication from any part of the world can remove the legitimate sting of the 5,000-year-old stigma of moral depravity associated with prostitution. No society can be convinced to embrace the sex worker even if she has been transformed to the level of someone with a professional vocation like baking, cooking, hairdressing or nursing: she is in the morally depraved business of engaging in condemned forbidden immorality that often breaks homes and families. No wife feels safe around the sex workers cruising for her husband and son. No neighbourhood is safe when half naked sex workers are advertising their business in front of children. What kind of society extols the abomination of sex workers carrying out their business as a human right? What society allows streets to be places where sex workers can have sexual relations in broad daylight?

Advantages of legalized prostitution? The sex worker is given the autonomy to be free to do her business. She does not have to be trained to service males sexually. She does not have to take an academic program to be a sex worker. She does not need to be schooled in sexual relations with males; she is automatically qualified to serve males with any item of the agenda on the menu.

Disadvantages: she destroys marriages. In every community the sex worker has destroyed a family. In every town the sex worker has destroyed a family. In every city the sex worker has destroyed a family. The sex worker has brought divorce. In every community the sex worker has brought divorce. In every town the sex worker has brought divorce. In every city the sex worker has brought divorce.

Where there is freedom for the sex worker there is a little baby who has lost her parents due to the split caused by infidelity. Where there is freedom for the sex worker there is a boy or girl who no longer has a permanent home due to the split caused by adultery caused by the sex worker. The sex worker has successfully destroyed this marriage in the community. The sex worker has successfully destroyed marriages in her town. The sex worker has successfully destroyed the marriages in this city.

What are the advantages of legalized prostitution? There is not a single redeemable social value in sexual immorality by prostitution. There is no redeemable psychological value in sexual immorality by prostitution. There is no single redeemable emotional value in gross sexual depravity by prostitution. There is no single redeemable anthropological value in gross sexual immorality by prostitution. There is no single redeemable mental value in sexual immorality by prostitution.

Infected prostitutes transmit infections that will eventually kill clients who will eventually fatally infect their wives and other sexual partners. A significant percentage of adult HIV/AIDS carriers are infected through prostitutes each year. Prostitutes become killers of other human beings. Prostitution is no longer harmless: it is devastating. It is fatal. The infected prostitute cannot be presented as hero when she is deliberately likened to irrefutable death. How can prostitution be viewed romantically when it has killed men? How can prostitution be viewed as romantic when the infected prostitute has killed females? How can prostitution be viewed as decent work when, each year, babies die from HIV/AIDS complications? There is no debate about whether prostitutes carry HIV/AIDS; the only concern is the enormity of the extent of HIV/AIDS infection.

Advantages of legalized prostitution? Are 100% non-existent. Sex workers in Germany suffer from the same blues as sex workers in the Netherlands. Sex workers cannot undo the mental and emotional repercussions of physical exploitation no matter how they are romanticized as legal. Men remain violent. Females look upon themselves with disgust. When 450,000 sex workers were offered state health welfare benefits, only 54 registered. There is something about the shame of the stigma attached to prostitution. The evils of prostitution, whether legalized or not legalized, are that they legitimize the sexual subordination of women.

Prostitution, legitimate or not, gives men full license to use females. Prostitution legitimises the sexual subordination of women in society. If modern women seek to be liberated from the male patriarchal hegemony of millennia, then legalizing prostitution is an antithesis. Globally, prostitutes are unanimous about the fact that prostitution brings self-hate. Prostitution is harrowing.

Universally, prostitutes report absolute savagery: men enjoy watching women in agony, and inflict pain on any part of the body including the breasts, the vagina and the mouth. They insert fingers and hands into any opening of the physical body, bite the nipples, chew the breasts, forcefully squeeze the flesh, bite the skin, shove fingers into the rectum as forcefully as possible, drive fingers into the vagina and shove the dry penis into the vagina as furiously as possible to violently rape. The woman is paid to receive such violence as a norm since she is a prostitute. Gang rape is often the name of the game since males can easily take advantage of the prostitute and leave her abandoned, bleeding and severely crippled.

To survive, the prostitute must disassociate from her body. Many prostitutes block out horrifying violence as if it is not happening in order to endure. They block by using hard core sedative narcotics. In this business you must