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Suspected brothel causes stink TAMMY PETERSEN
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ESIDENTS allege that a quiet street in Rondebosch East has become the local “sex trade headquarters” for Chinese prostitutes after a “madame” moved in two months ago. The average-looking house is believed to be housing about four “beautiful women” who receive visitors mostly in the middle of the night, locals claim. The house, situated in Fourth Avenue, is secured by high walls and boasts a security camera to monitor the electric gate. Neighbours say luxury cars frequent the house from midnight to the early hours of the morning. “We know that something isn’t right there,” a resident says. “They are running a brothel and think we will just let them do what they like in our area. No way, man. We are mostly devout Muslim and Christian residents who live here and
something like this is haraam. It is a sin to stand by and allow people to destroy themselves and families like this.” He says that on the “odd occasion” he sees the Chinese woman outside the house and always tells her to “stop her nonsense”. “She either ignores me or screams at me in a foreign language. Everyone here knows what they are doing. It’s disgusting.” Another neighbour claims that a “fishy smell” is constantly in the air around the house and that residents are convinced that the house is also being used to store illegal perlemoen. “The stench is unbearable,” the woman says. “It’s so strong it makes you sick to your stomach. Cars sometimes pull up and deliver packages and we even find broken foam boxes, usually used to keep abalone cool, blowing around the street.” When People’s Post visited the house with the police on Thursday,
a Chinese woman claiming to be the main tenant in the house vehemently denied being involved in crime. “I am not bad. I have papers,” she said repeatedly. The woman was initially reluctant to let the officers in but after a few minutes opened the door. The house was in virtual darkness and the woman claimed she was home alone. When the officers asked her to turn on the lights, a man was found in the front bedroom, sitting on a chair. He claimed to be her boyfriend. “He visits me,” she argued. “He didn’t do anything.” When asked by the policemen to show them around the house, she took them to her bedroom. A massage table was set up next to an unmade bed and when she was asked if she ran a massage parlour, she replied that it’s to fix her “sore” back. When the officers moved to the second bedroom it was locked and
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the woman replied that the person living in the room was not home. However, after the officers knocked at the door, a second Chinese woman came out of the room. She could not speak English, the first woman explained. After the officers asked her why she had lied and said there was noone else in the house, the woman claimed that she had not understood the question. The trio was warned by the officers that police would be monitoring the house and that if they were involved in illegal activities they would be arrested. The woman, who says she has been living in the area for two months, replied that she was not doing anything wrong and was regularly harassed by neighbours accusing her of illegal activity. “They make ‘bang bang’ on my gate. But I do nothing. They don’t leave me alone. I like to stay in the house and watch TV,” she insisted to the officers.
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Hanif Loonat, the chairperson for the Nyanga Cluster Community Police Forum, says it has become the norm to rent houses in affluent areas for illegal activities. “Criminals reckon that they won’t be noticed if they live in a nice house in a nice suburb. They must be caught and weeded out of our society. We must apply pressure on them and make it clear that their type won’t be tolerated in our communities. They must get out.” Loonat says the owner of the house contacted him recently and arranged a meeting for later this week. “He, too, suspected that something was wrong at his house and when we meet, we will discuss possible ways of resolving this issue.”
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