FROM HOME TO JOHANNESBURG LOOKING FOR A JOB VOLUME
ANDILE
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First time I came here I was with my friend looking for a job and I didn’t know anybody. It was my friend who have another friend here and she promise that we are going to get a job have a lot of money and then we will be able to send money at home to my grandmother coz `I left her with my kids and it is me who is a breadwinner at home. So I failed to get a job and I am far from home and I have to keep looking so I ended up sleeping with the guy that I did not know because we were stranded. We do not have a place to stay, sleep and we were hungry so we start staying with this guys as girlfriend and boyfriend with my friend. One week later, I met one lady in Hillbrow and told her about how I came here it is because I did not come to Jozi to stay with a man but I came to get a better life for my family and kids. So she just feel sorry for me and she take me to her place and told me that she’s going to go with me in her work `I can make too much money and myself and gets my own place and send money at home and everything is going to be alright. But before you do business you have to drink alcohol first so you wont be scared or afraid. I end up doing this job as`I am still doing it now but I never like it but its better than staying with someone who is abusing you with sex and on the other side he is not your boyfriend. He didn’t tell you that “I love you as a girlfriend”. Its because he wants to have to have sex with you because you are staying free in his place and eating free. It is better to be a sex worker coz you are always protecting yourself using condoms so you can get money for your problems. When I get there in Johannesburg and I see lot of things, a lot of traffic, many people and big buildings. On my side I was thinking that everything is going to easy for me as I expected.
I am a lady who is 23 years old and have 2 children with no father so I have to look after them and my mother and it is me who can put food on the table so I have to look for a job.
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1. So when I met another lady in town we go to this hotel called the Bombastic Hotel and we go in and I saw many girls. They were wearing miniskirt but they were busy dancing it was too much noise of music and there were big speakers and I was afraid but I have to be strong because I have to get into the job and join other girls. 2. There are so many different ladies where I work. This is one of the different ladies. 3. I travel long way from home in KZN to Johannesburg. I really have to keep going with my feet so that I can get into town for transport to Johannesburg. 4. You can’t work without drinking alcohol because you will be afraid and scared. 5. This is a different client. You must get client after client. 6. You must get client after client. 7. I really don’t like what I am doing but I have to do it. I wish one day I can change my life to be a better person so I can raise my child as well as be a proud mother and not be a sex worker. 8. When you start making this business with the client you have to take money first and do the job and you put the client 2 condoms for safety.
ANDILE