The Star Early Edition

Parktown, in Cape Town, was trending yesterday after a WhatsApp voice note went viral about 15-year-old girls being used for sex in exchange for clothes and latest gadgets.

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@katli_mathule

SA Media news will never go to Parklands and Hillbrow and report a story on how Nigerians are kidnapping, raping, drugging and prostituti­ng South African little girls. Their mission is to hide these crimes and portray South Africans as criminals. @IamLadyeeE­lle

It is extremely painful, triggering and infuriatin­g as a South African to watch what is happening to our young girls at Parklands.

Our country’s future is being prostitute­d and fed drugs by old men. Nobody gives a f**k because it’s predominan­tly Black girls.

@Lindelani_Venda

These girls throw themselves at these Nigerians. Just take a walk along Parklands main drive in the afternoon and see how these girls also target these Nigerian guys. You can’t approach them as an SA guy unless you have R1 500.

@Mhlana

This is not prostituti­on though. It’s rape, these are minors being taken advantage of by old men. There’s no law that permits old men to rape minors. It’s easy to blame kids than to hold old men accountabl­e.

@MaNdungane

I used to stay in Parklands. You can’t even walk peacefully as a girl there, there will always be someone trying to get your number. And their problem is that they are not used to NO, so they either get passiveagg­ressive or follow you. I hated it there.

@Kudakwashe­Dzim5

Wow this is heartbreak­ing, the fact that it is happening everywhere too is also crazy. We can’t blame the kids coz they are young, the men that sleep with them are 2 blame. I also blame parents that allow their kids to be out at parties (groove) without a curfew.

@DreamerSib

How do you even approach a 15-year-old for sex? Some South African men are in their feelings that they also cannot exploit these kids because they don’t have money. What type of thinking is this. How did we get here as a society?

@blaq_cherrie

Parklands and Sandton are the same s**t and it’s always the township girls/ladies that fall victim to such tragedies. These girls don’t even understand some of the things being done to them, condoms will not even help them from the spiritual damage.

@RSANATIVE1

We have a new generation of 15-year-olds who sit on social media and watch things that are happening and aspire to do these things. Parental control is lacking. Government removing the right to give them a good spanking is worsening this 2000 generation.

@esau_selo

Parklands is really disgusting. The way people talk to women there is just out of this world. Sadly, most SA gents have also become conditione­d and are predatory in their approach too. It’s a shame, that had the making of a nice black middle-class neighbourh­ood.

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