Central's underworld activities
Donkin Reserve: Pyramid and Lighthouse in Central Tour of Central’s underworld activities can be quite enlightening, writes LUYOLO MKENTANE IT IS Tuesday afternoon. I’m with my colleague, photographer Brian Witbooi, at Korsten’s Hiles Street in Port Elizabeth. We have come to pick up our informant - who’ll only be referred to as George - for an hour-long tour of Central’s underworld activities. George, who is a community leader working closely with the police to root out child trafficking and prostitution in Central, gets in the bakkie, shakes our hands, before telling Brian to drive towards North End. We pull over next to an African themed cafe and entertainment centre in Govan Mbeki Avenue. “You see the this place? This is the recruitment centre where young girls are coerced into prostitution by Nigerians,” says George. “They put some of them into the sex trade industry here in PE while others get trafficked to cities such as Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Johannesburg”. George then s