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Sex workers torment Bulawayo CBD residents
Residents in Bulawayo's central business district (CBD) are expressing growing concern over the disruptive behavior of commercial sex workers in the area, particularly along Fort Street, Second Avenue...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 09:22hrs | 1333 | by Staff reporter
As Zimbabwe's rail system collapses, vice thrives in the trains left behind
INSIDE the abandoned trains of Zimbabwe's once-proud railway system, sex workers try to catch the attention of passing men, while drug dealers sell codeine-laced cough syrup and homeless families sear...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:22hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's daytime sex work solicitation raises concerns
Bulawayo's downtown is witnessing a shift in the landscape of sex work, with sex workers establishing a noticeable daytime presence. This trend has raised concerns among residents and property owners,...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 11:46hrs | 1027 | by Staff reporter
Minister fires warning shots at Harare brothels
Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister, Barbara Rwodzi has expressed dissatisfaction with mushrooming brothels countrywide, announcing Harare as the main culprit where unregistered 'quickie nests' ...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 17:17hrs | 245 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Redi Thlabi: the black woman weaponized against South Africa
South Africa is under attack by Western countries led by the US due to its BRICS membership and non-aligned geopolitical policy. This isn't surprising, given the West's frustration with the country's ...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 12:46hrs | 2 | by Larmbert Ebitu
Huge drop in Matebeleland South HIV prevalence
Matebeleland South province is making considerable strides in combating HIV and Aids amid concerns that the province is characterised by high population movements.The province shares borders w...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga promised swimming pools, but Mbare residents swim in sewage
OVERCROWDING, poor water reticulation, obsolete sewer systems, uncollected refuse and old inhabitable homes is the story of Mbare.It is also the story of Matapi Flats in the same suburb, built...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:14hrs | | by Tatenda Manyinyire
Alarm over rise in brothels
Residents have called on the Municipality of Gwanda and police to act on illegal activities which have resulted in the increase in crime in the mining town.Residents said they were being terro...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
African sex workers face digital abuse as pandemic pushes them online
Kenyan sex worker Elizabeth Otieno shudders each time her cellphone buzzes with a new notification.The device may have become a lifeline in helping her move her work online during the COVID-19...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dispelling the idiotic myths and stereotypes against Matabeleland
Although myths and legends have been useful tools of African philosophy for raising children since time immemorial, the way it has been used to enhance Shona supremacy and denigrate the people of Mata...Published: 26 May 2021 at 06:49hrs | 9 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Gwanda hookers now working from home
BEFORE the new normal, ladies of the night were much sought-after at various drinking spots in the mining town of Gwanda. Calling on sex workers' services was the order of the day for some men after i...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The invisible GBV in the workplace
With the 16 days of activism against Gender Based Violence having come to an end, I am grateful abused women and men got a chance to be heard, understood and recognised.What pains me, however,...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 11:21hrs | 2 | by Gift Mashoko
More schools, colleges hit by Covid-19
COVID-19 is ripping through educational institutions in the country with latest statistics showing that more than 150 learners and teachers at schools and colleges have tested positive.Sunday ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans turn to sex work amid economic crisis and COVID-19
DRESSED in a mini-skirt and blouse, Esther Kamupunga stood in semi-darkness waiting for men looking for sex the latest Zimbabwean to lose her job in a deepening economic crisis, worsened by the new co...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
16 sex workers quit prostitution
SIXTEEN commercial sex workers in Chivhu on Saturday announced that they had quit the world's oldest profession and formed a business association to transform their lives.The sex workers publi...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:24hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo becoming haven for drug peddlers, gullible youths turn to mental patients' pills
BULAWAYO is fast turning into a haven for drug peddlers, who are pushing an assortment of dangerous substances, turning gullible youths into addicts.Sunday News discovered that so cunning are ...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Inside Harare's online brothels
CIVILISATION'S oldest profession has taken a new twist.Once a shameful act in Zimbabwe, done under the cover of darkness, the trade has gone a notch higher as new technology is shaking up the ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigumba wrong pick for Chamisa's tango pal
The history of tango music or tango dance, a South American (specifically Argentine) routine, dates back to the late 19th century and has seen its popularity rise and fall over the years. Tang...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:20hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Student prostitution: Cancer in colleges, schools
Government and parents invest heavily in education. Often times education receives the lion's share of government's annual budget. It is not surprising. Education manufactures the nation's human capit...Published: 25 May 2018 at 06:51hrs | 1 | by Professor Charles-PFukwa
Zapu in door-to-door campaigns
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led opposition Zapu has embarked on a door-to-door campaign in Bulawayo to drum up support for its candidates ahead of this year's general elections.Zapu spokesperson, Iphi...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sangoma despised outside her circles, revered by those who know her
INVESTIGATED by child rights organisations for allegedly recruiting underage girls for exploitation as sex slaves - traditional healer Sophie Masikuka, 57, popularly known as Mbuya Sauti - is despised...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 14:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Granny cohabits with Ben 10
The mountainous city of Mutare is abuzz with the story of a 57-year-old shebeen queen who is cohabiting with her former tenant — 28 years younger.Popularly known as Mbuya Sauti, Sophie Masik...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 10:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prostitution is exploitative
They say prostitution is a matter of choice, but tell that to the woman who was forced into it by her parents, tell that to the child who was abandoned and needed food to eat, tell that to the young g...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 20:07hrs | 1 | by Clive Chiridza
Social media users warned by the Junta
The defence and security arms also warned malicious individuals aiming to disturb peace and stability in the country by circulating inflammatory content on social media. In a joint statement, ...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 10:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
We don't fight personal wars, claims ZDF
The Defence and Security Services yesterday warned the public against seeking the services of members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to settle personal scores, taking advantage of the ongoing Op...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZDF, police warn revenge seekers
THE Defence and Security Services yesterday warned the public against seeking the services of members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to settle personal scores, taking advantage of the on-going O...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military warn 'misguided' elements
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) and other security services say they have noted with concern a disturbing trend from a few misguided members of the public, who are engaging in counter-productive act...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 13:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Houses turning into brothels
Harare City Council has begun to reject the change of use of residential properties into lodges after complaints that the houses are being used as brothels.This comes as council is receiving m...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 15:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Robert Mugabe will not be Buried at National Heroes Acre
It became clear to some of us a long time ago that Mrs Grace Mugabe would become the next President of Zimbabwe while her husband Robert Mugabe shall retain the Presidency of Zanu-PF indefinitely....Published: 07 Oct 2017 at 18:41hrs | 1 | by Paul Siwela
Zimbabwe has lost its culture and its too bad
Cultural decay is when a culture no longer holds any value to the youth of the period and is slowly cast aside in favor of new trends. ... The effects would be anarchy and mayhem.It is when a ...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 10:14hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Brothels ravage Bulawayo
Brothels are multiplying in Zimbabwe's second largest city, with concerned city fathers mulling a campaign to clampdown on the menace.A survey by the Southern News found that numerous town hou...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 13:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
USA notes Zimbabwe progress in combating human trafficking
A United States government report says Zimbabwe made notable progress to strengthen its capacity and to respond to cases of trafficking in persons in the past year. "The (Zimbabwe) government ...Published: 01 Jul 2017 at 10:48hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Zimbabwean students in Cyprus turn to prostitution'
Desperate Zimbabwean students studying in Cyprus are engaged in dangerous activities which include drug trafficking, prostitution and gambling as they bid to fund their university education, Parliamen...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 13:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe improves in human trafficking rankings
ZIMBABWE'S rankings in human trafficking have improved this year, moving from tier three to tier two, a United States diplomat, Lisa Krista, told journalists in Harare yesterday.Tier three ran...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe media split into rival camps that parallel various political divides
I don't know what triggered it, but I just woke up craving for hard-reading stuff. Deep and tough reading. If happens quite often, especially when you suffer a surfeit of the mundane, the everyday, wh...Published: 10 Jun 2017 at 17:01hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
NRZ wagons turned into 'brothels'
The rusty, broken down coaches, disused rail wagons and the unkempt grass at the National Railway of Zimbabwe Harare locomotive yard have become a haven for concubines, street urchins, drug abusers an...Published: 28 May 2017 at 09:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
U.S. calls for stronger action against human trafficking
A senior United States Embassy official has called for sterner reaction by individuals to individuals and companies involved in human trafficking, among other measures to stamp the scourge that ...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 05:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's corridors of sexual horror
ZIMBABWE'S highways have become a magnet of sexual exploitation of young girls dropping out of school due to abject poverty, which calls for urgent action to protect thousands of teenage girls fro...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:16hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's disused factories turned into squatter homes
A couple of years ago I posted that while I was driving around the industrial areas in Bulawayo on a Sunday morning the place was abuzz with sounds of musical instruments and people deep in prayer ins...Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 05:51hrs | | by Bekezela Maduma Fuzwayo
Zimbabweans ask for ANC intervention
ZIMBABWEANS living South Africa have engaged the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its political allies to intervene in fresh xenophobic violence in Pretoria and Johannesburg.The ...Published: 27 Feb 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
A letter to my Cousin who buys sex in German sex-shops and brothels
I hope I find you well Cousin,I send you this email for your consideration. We women in the Feminist Party Germany are fighting to abolish sex-shops and sex-houses and brothels in Germ...Published: 24 Sep 2016 at 22:16hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Brothels Boom: Bulawayo pastors raise alarm, plot to block bar opening
PASTORS from Bulawayo have raised concern over the proliferation of brothels in some of the city's suburbs, which they blamed on the opening of more night clubs which they said were introducing yo...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is South Africa doing enough to combat human trafficking?
Johannesburg - Thousands of people are trafficked across continents every year by people smugglers and organised crime syndicates.Human trafficking has become a billion dollar industry and governments...Published: 04 May 2016 at 21:31hrs | | by Thabo Kunene
Masvingo prostitutes in SA on exchange programme
A group of commercial sex workers from Ngundu Business Center in Chivi, Masvingo reportedly left the country to South Africa recently where they spent a week on an exchange programme with their counte...Published: 25 Jan 2016 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Sex being auction in public
HUMAN rights activists argue that calling it prostitution is derogatory because it is a profession like any other occupation.Prostitution is a feature of every city in the world, but in recent...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 10:21hrs | | by Tabitha Mutenga
Zimbabwean robber shot dead in Johannesburg
Johannesburg - A Zimbabwean criminal found out the hard way that crime does not pay when he was shot dead in Hillbrow this morning by a man he tried to rob unaware that his intended victim was armed w...Published: 16 Nov 2015 at 10:58hrs | 1 | by Thabo Kunene
Woman raped 43,200 times
In one of the worst cases of human trafficking, a survivor from Mexico has told CNN how she was raped 43 200 times after falling into the hands of traffickers.Karla Jacinto said she was forced...Published: 12 Nov 2015 at 17:48hrs | | by CNN
Tsvangirai unrelenting as Mnangagwa demands his MDC-T share from Mwonzora
Whilst many political analysts, pundits and celebrated bookmakers are still awe stuck on how a nonentity, Jonny - come - late Mr. Douglas Mwonzora defeated celebrated, maverick, charismatic and eloque...Published: 05 Oct 2015 at 10:20hrs | 1 | by Wangu Mazodze
Zimbabwe cops run shebeens, says Minister
POLICE officers are operating shebeens in Mangwe District which have been blamed for fuelling criminal activities within mining areas, the newly appointed Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Obedingwa Mg...Published: 16 Sep 2015 at 06:41hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
Gwanda residents irked by prostitution escalations
Residents in the mining town of Gwanda in Matabeleland South have expressed concerns over the sprouting activities of prostitution accusing some local lodges and hotels for fueling the destruction...Published: 30 Jun 2015 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
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