104 ladies of the night rescued
Mpumalanga police held an operation to rescue ladies that are kept against their will and are used for prostitution
The police have rescued 104 women believed to have been kept against their will as prostitutes during raids in eMalahleni.
WITBANK NEWS reported on the chaos in the Central Business District on October 22.
It is alleged that the chaos that went down on Tuesday, October 22, was because of the taxi association taking matters into their own hands.
The first incident occurred in Allenby Street, where members of the taxi association set a house on fire after information came through about a Nigerian that allegedly raped a woman and kept her locked up in the aforementioned house since Sunday, October 15,” the article stated.
On October 25 the Mpumalanga police held an operation to rescue ladies that are kept against their will and are used for prostitution.
The provincial spokesperson for SAPS, Leonard Hlathi said that the area targeted was believed to be harbouring prostitutes, drug dealers and illegal foreign nationals.
“We raided that place informed by an incident that happened during the week in which a 39-year-old woman reported to the taxi people that she was subjected to severe rape and fed with drugs in a particular house in Witbank. The taxi rank people then went to torch three houses as well as a business believed to belong to foreign nationals,” he concluded.
