State loses hotel, gets brothel
Liela Magnus, Beeld
Pretoria - Suggestive advertisements, adult videos, vertical poles in the dance area and sexually-suggestive menus are not necessarily evidence a place is a brothel.
This was the ruling of acting Judge Kobus van Rooyen in Pretoria High Court in an application from the national director of public prosecutions to confiscate a brothel to the State.
The State applied to the court to confiscate the site of the Ambassadors Hotel in Church Street, in accordance with the Act on the Prevention of Organised Crime.
The site had been held in trust since an earlier ruling after police officials set a trap and two women agreed to have sex with them for money.
Frederik Hendrik "Mannetjies" Geyser and Fakkel Scrap Dealers CC, the owners of the property, opposed the application.
Geyser said he didn't know the place had been run as a brothel.
He said he knew lap dances were taking place on the ground floor.
Ground floor 'decent'
In accordance with an instruction from his lawyers, rooms on the top floor had to be reserved in the names of clients.
He said what took place in the rooms had been a matter between the parties involved.
Van Rooyen said there had been no evidence that striptease dancing had been indecent and the ground floor couldn't be seen as part of a brothel.
He ruled there had been evidence that the top floor had been used as a brothel and some administration took place to make appointments with women.
He ruled the top floor be forfeited to the State, but not the ground floor.
A curator was appointed to sell the premises and split the income.
News source: www.news24.co.za
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