But what is… something we are going to talk about more tomorrow is that there is a distinction between the violation of human rights, and criminalisation. [...] Because criminalisation is essentially about the use of criminal law, and so something becomes a crime, and so it becomes important for us to understand, what is it that is criminalised? [...] Gabriel: So if you look at these two characters, who are the stakeholders that we see on stage, in this case I guess it is two. [...] That is why the police and NPA are unsuccessful in prosecuting sex workers in terms of this act. [...] And used as evidence in court to say that this is a sex worker and so on. [...] There is a need for them to be more comfortable with following through with the case. Sibongile: Part of this is something that we are going to be talking about, but when you use litigation, or when litigation is not really strategic, which happens some times, and how litigation can stops advocacy. [...] So put forward a good case with good plans and good merits, because if for some reason you are not successful, but you are not seen to be dragging the process in terms of advocacy. [...] They were held in prison for a month and two weeks, because of the municipal by-laws that apply to that situation. [...] So what happened with that is that they voted a law, and said that that law was going to have an upper hand over all the other laws in the country? [...] At that time I was also a member of the national executive of the *inaudi- ble so like when someone from other *inaudible coming, we to be on our guard and we don’t know what he is going to raise in parliament.
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