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| - "Drive Thru Eye Candy" reads a blackboard written with white and pink chalk outside a strip club in an affluent suburb of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Two strippers wearing red T-shirts and black thongs stand along the busy street waving at passing motorists, holding up signs marked "Enter Here Strip-Thru" in bright red lettering. Round the back, scantily clad dancers wearing black face masks perform as clients watch from their cars after paying around 300 rands ($17, 15 euros). After less than 10 minutes, each punter must drive on. Since South African imposed harsh lockdown restrictions to fight the coronavirus pandemic, the sex industry has been among the hardest-hit sectors. With the easing of the restrictions, Candy's Revue Bar was allowed to resume operations early this month, but was still unable to offer indoor entertainment -- hence the novel drive-through strip show. One of the dancers, who called herself Scarlett, was relieved to be back at work and " do what we enjoy to do, and also entertain the people that missed us". "We all got to get used to this new way of social distancing, you know with the masks, but it is what it is, and we all work... You can always do your job somehow," she said. Proprietor Charl Muller said it was not easy continuing to pay the dancers during the club's two-month shutdown. "Sometimes you have to just be creative and make some income where you can," he said. vid-sn/gd
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