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Trump funding cuts major blow for Zimbabwe LGBTIQ+ rights
The recent reduction in US government funding for LGBTIQ+ programmes has dealt a severe blow to public health and human rights services in Zimbabwe, leaving vulnerable communities exposed to heightene...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 12:06hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Two women sentenced for robbing drunk man in Plumtree
Two women accused of robbing an intoxicated man of ZAR 1,000 in Plumtree have appeared in court.Gloria Mkwebu (35) and Sylvia Mhlanga, both identified as commercial sex workers, appeared befor...Published: 21 Apr 2025 at 11:58hrs | 868 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Sex workers turn to illegal mining
Several commercial sex workers in Guruve have turned to illegal mining due to the harsh economic conditions.The sex workers have joined a huge number of illegal miners in Guruve Centre where t...Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 13:45hrs | 919 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Guruve
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 | 1691 | by Staff reporter
Six sex workers kill client over $5
Six commercial sex workers are in soup after they allegedly bashed a client to death over a short time fee in Chirundu.The suspects app...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 21:27hrs | 2813 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Sex workers demand stands
Commercial sex workers, vendors, and churches in the Karoi farming town are advocating for residential stands as a fundamental human right. They claim they have been excluded from residential housing ...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Harare's sex workers become targets for criminals
SAMANTHA GARWE aged 27 sits on a pavement in one of the streets of Harare; head bowed sobbing finding solace in the arms of colleagues.A sight that on-lookers could not escape, Garwe who was w...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Confessions of a sex worker
FOR many people especially those with conservative, religious views, sex work often called the world's oldest profession, is dirty, immoral and those who do consent to it can't possibly respect themse...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Murder suspect bites off sex worker's tongue
A Chiweshe based suspected murderer who is on bail for the alleged murder case did not repent from her previous case since she allegedly bite off a collea...Published: 08 Jun 2023 at 00:17hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man robbed by commercial sex workers
A 38-year-old Harare man lost an Iphone and US$5 to three commercial sex workers who attacked him while he was attending to his vehicle after it had developed a mechanical fault last night.The...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records surge in sex workers
ZIMBABWE has recorded an increase in commercial sex workers, with Harare adjudged to be the biggest red-light district, a new survey by the National Aids Council (Nac), Health and Child Care ministry ...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:53hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF youth denounce ZRP
ZANU PF youth political commissar Tsungai Makombe on Sunday blasted Zimbabwe Republic Police for brutalizing people at Mazowe (Jumbo)mine....Published: 11 Jul 2022 at 20:40hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Chiweshe
Three some ends disastrous
A Chiweshe man lost $US150 to two commercial sex workers who searched him while he was asleep after a juicy act with the duo.Darlington...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:02hrs | 13 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Shortage of condoms hit artisanal miners
Unregistered artisanal miners in Gokwe north district have been hit by an acute shortage of condoms.Artisinal miners in Zenda, Kadonde ...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 21:31hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Old sex workers lament stiff competition on streets
LIKE any other business, old sex workers in Bulawayo are also facing a similar situation of business competition as they are being pushed out of the "nocturnal" trade due to strong competition from yo...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:52hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
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 | 5 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners prey on sex workers
MACHETE-WIELDING gold panners in the Midlands province are reportedly terrorising commercial sex workers, beating them up and refusing to pay for services rendered.Women rights groups say some...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers start farming venture
THE First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa has extended her philanthropic work and empowerment initiatives to sex workers in Gweru where she donated farming inputs so that they could embark on farming pro...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Building Zimbabwe brick by brick' euphemism for negligible and oftentimes non-existent development!
Euphemisms have been with us for as long as language has existed - from the time humans began communicating with each other through speech.As the art of language advanced, the use of euphemism...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 10:29hrs | 14 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
NAC engages Chiefs
The National Aids Council (NAC) has today engaged Chiefs across Mashonaland Central province on a sensitization program to fight further HIV/AIDS infectio...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 07:23hrs | 3 | by Lloyd Rabaya
Cops demand sex from sex workers
COMMERCIAL sex workers in Mashonaland East province have accused police officers of extorting bribes or sexual favours in order for them to operate after curfew hours.According to the Zimbabwe...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:47hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Hookers back on the streets
IT'S a Friday night and a skimpily dressed sex worker flags down vehicles and individuals on foot, soliciting for clients while on the lookout for law enforcement officers.The presence of poli...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 20:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Juju scare in sex work
A group of commercial sex workers allegedly pounced on a Hopely sex worker accusing her of snatching all clients using juju.The sex wor...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 00:00hrs | 13 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Highfield
Prostitute stabs soldier to death
Commercial sex workers in Highfield have blasted their colleague who allegedly stabbed a client to death over the weekend.The hooker only identified as Christine from Cannan Mahobi saburb fata...Published: 21 May 2021 at 12:46hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Highfield
Hurungwe runs out of condoms
HURUNGWE district ran out of condoms in the first quarter of this year, a district Aids action committee stakeholders meeting heard yesterday.Stakeholders raised fears of outbreaks of sexually...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers turn to technology for survival
THE COVID-19-induced lockdown may have brought many businesses to their knees, but innovation has kept others going and commercial sex workers have not been left out in embracing technology to eke a l...Published: 22 Apr 2021 at 06:26hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown defiance rife in Matabeleland South
THERE is widespread defiance of lockdown regulations in most parts of Matabeleland South province, a development that health authorities and police say is worrisome. Areas such as Gwanda, Mbal...Published: 04 Feb 2021 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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 | 6 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown spawns online sex trade
MOST sex workers in Zimbabwe meet clients in person in bars and on a dark street corner at night in town, but since the Covid-19 lockdown came into effect on Saturday, the street hookers have been for...Published: 09 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Council bleeding city of millions
MDC-Alliance Harare councillors and the city's management have been bleeding council of millions of dollars over the years in a property lease scam caused by the shambolic state of the council revenue...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 05:56hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 22 | by Staff reporter
'BCC clinics do not discriminate patients'
Personnel at Bulawayo City Council (BCC) clinics attend sensitisation workshops to equip them with skills to treat all patients, including people with different sexual orientation and key populations,...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:08hrs | | 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 | 7 | by Staff reporter
Death in fight for hooker at brothel
POLICE in Hwange have arrested four people, two of them twin brothers, for allegedly fatally assaulting an unidentified man at a brothel in Hwange. The brothers Ashford and Joseph Nasile...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 06:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Nurses selling birth control pills on black market
Nurses at Chiredzi General Hospital are reportedly stealing birth control pills from the health institution and selling them for as much as $4 a satchet on the black market.Chiredzi General Ho...Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly committees probe Chiredzi child prostitution
THREE parliamentary thematic committees on Tuesday descended on Chiredzi on a fact-finding mission on child prostitution as well as sexual reproductive health and rights.The committees that ca...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Panic as prostitutes take used condom to sangoma
Panic has gripped a number of Harare men who frequent the Red light district seeking a nice time with commercial sex workers after Prophet C B Motondo of Grace Faith Ministries operating along K...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Man loses US$3 000 to twin sex workers
TWO suspected commercial sex workers whose video torched a storm on social media recently beating up a man with cooking sticks accusing him of infidelity appeared in court last week. The two i...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 23:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sex vendors dollarise
GRIEF is the real price men pay for sex!With the festive season around the corner, some commercial sex workers in Bulawayo are literally running a promotion in which they are reportedly offeri...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 14:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Council invites sex wokers to submit project proposals
THE Beitbridge municipality has invited commercial sex workers to submit project proposals so that they can get assistance from the local authority and turn away from the world's oldest profession....Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hookers descend on Beitbridge
COMMERCIAL sex workers have descended on Nottingham and Bishopstone citrus farms in Beitbridge district where they are targeting seasonal farm workers earning foreign currency, thereby fuelling an inc...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Truck drivers prey on young women
THE Zimbabwe National Council for the Welfare of Children (ZNCWC) has called on government to address the sexual exploitation of children by truck drivers and artisanal miners who lure them with cash....Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex vendor jailed 10 years for armed robbery
A notorious Harare Avenues area hooker who robbed a man at gun point and made off with his wallet and bank cards before going on a spending spree was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years imprisonmen...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 07:01hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Prostitution is on the rise
It was recently alleged that fifty percent of prostitutes practicing in Zimbabwe are HIV positive. If numbers are anything to go by then its quite a staggering and frightening figure. Putting ...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:07hrs | | by Tondo Murisa.
+50% of prostitutes HIV+
MORE than half of commercial sex workers in the country are HIV positive, UNAIDS has revealed in a report.According to the 2018 report released on Thursday, the country has 45 000 sex workers ...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Banker promises to transform Harare CBD
BANKER and economic development consultant, Kudzai Mubaiwa promises to help transform the Harare central business district (CBD) and city into an economic empowerment hub if elected as an independent ...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Robber who preyed on women nabbed
POLICE in Harare have arrested a man for allegedly targeting women and lacing their drinks with drugs before stealing from them.Criminal Investigations Department spokesperson, Detective Assis...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Sex workers invade council flat
Council workers residing at Trafalgar Court in Harare's central business district (CBD) have voiced concern over the proliferation of commercial sex workers at the City of Harare flat fearing that it ...Published: 31 May 2018 at 07:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admin wins international admiration
THE new administration headed by President Mnangagwa has won international admiration for rolling out freedoms never experienced in the country in many years.In a report by one of the world's ...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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