The Makhado Municipality's demolition blitz last week was welcomed by Louis Trichardt residents, though not all were pleased to see their homes of the past few years destroyed. As the walls of one derelict building began to crumble, the sex workers who stayed there shouted obscenities at municipal workers, even threatening to increase the tariffs for their "services."
The house on the corner of Grobler and Joubert Street, from which the sex workers operated, is just one of several struc...