Daily Sun (April 1 2014) - THE magoshas say he is a cruel cop who seems to enjoy making their tough lives even tougher.
He doesn't bonk them but he pushes his fingers inside them, he takes their money and he beats them.
HE EVEN FORCES THEM TO OPEN THEIR LEGS SO HE CAN TAKE PICTURES OF THEIR PRIVATE PARTS.
The magoshas who work in Tembisa, Ekurhuleni agree that the cop, a section manager at Olifantsfontein cop shop in Midrand, does things to them them because he likes to humiliate and hurt them.
An angry magosha told Daily Sun it is not an easy job.
"We don't lie on a comfortable bed with nice sheets. We do the business in the bushes and we get thorns in our backsides," she said.
"We want this cop to leave us alone. We want him to be arrested for this."
A 36-year-old magosha told Daily Sun this same cop was on TV before for dragging a magosha on the ground and beating her. A case was opened but the women got no help from the cops.
"When we go to the station they tell us to go away because we are stinking or they arrest us," she said.
The women aged between 23 and 58 come from different parts of the country and charge between R15 and R50 a time.
But the perverted cop shows no mercy. He takes the little bit of money they earn for himself and if he is in a bad mood, the women get beaten and spend a night in jail.
A gogo magosha (58) who is supposed to be on pension said they do this work because they need the money. "We don't do this for fun. We have kids to feed," she said.
"Its very embarrassing for someone my age to be opening my legs for a pervert to have a look at my private parts."
The magoshas complain that the cop makes them pay "tax" because they don't pay it to the government.
On Friday some of the women were arrested and some allegedly beaten by the cop and his friends.
"If you are unlucky enough to get caught, your clothes and your customer's clothes get burnt and the customer has to pay a R1 500 fine," said one of the women.
The women said the cop wants to own them so they can work for him and pay him.
"This man is making our lives impossible. We don't work for him," said a magosha.
) Olifantsfontein Police Station's Colonel John Mosowe said no law enforcement members are allowed to turn away complainants.
"I have advised the ladies to open a case. This case and the one opened last year will be formally investigated," he said.
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