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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 | 2818 | by Staff reporter
45% sex workers HIV-positive
ABOUT 40 percent of sex workers in Zimbabwe are HIV-positive and have been subjected to some forms of stigma and discrimination which affects their health seeking behaviour. According to Avert...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:53hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's sex vendors on streets despite virus restrictions
Forced to stay home for weeks without any source of income, Zimbabwe's sex workers, like many other informal traders, are beginning to defy the country's lockdown and return to the streets.Ris...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 14:45hrs | 2065 | by AP
Sex vendors in the jaws of COVID-19
THE catastrophic effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic wreaking havoc across the globe have left many people financially crippled and impoverished.While lockdown proclamations in many...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:21hrs | 3937 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers scramble for operating space
STANDING at a dimly lit street corner opposite a once-popular nightclub in Bulawayo, five skimpily dressed sex workers flag down passing vehicles and individuals on foot soliciting for clients....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 13:49hrs | 2490 | by Staff reporter
Abortion mystery at thigh vendors' den
Two residents of a thigh vendors' haven in Mutare's city centre were at each other's throats on Friday as they fought over a suspected abortion case.When The Weekender arrived at No. 143 Third...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 06:24hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Hookers call on Ramaphosa to include them in plan to aid workers during lockdown
The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat) and Sisonke, the National Movement of Sex Workers, have called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to make urgent provision for the Temporary Employee...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 07:19hrs | 2572 | by Staff reporter
16 prostitutes lose property to 1 client
A crafty Masvingo man enriched himself by stealing thousands of dollars worth of property using one modus operandi in which he dated a sex worker, studied her home environment before coming back as a ...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:25hrs | 2753 | by Staff reporter
Male sex workers complain over stigma
MALE sex workers have complained that the stigmatisation and criminalisation of their profession is derailing the country's progress in reducing the spread of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) as...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:50hrs | 1306 | by Staff reporter
'I robbed men after sex'
A SELF-CONFESSED sex worker serving time for extorting her clients has sensationally claimed to have been convicted by the power of the Holy Spirit.Chipo Dube vowed to turn her former clients ...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 21:59hrs | 4850 | by Staff reporter
Man battles for life after fight over hookers
A man from Pumula North in Bulawayo is battling for life at Mpilo Central Hospital after he was attacked by two suspected illegal miners with a knobkerrie fitted with nails following a misunderstandin...Published: 23 Feb 2020 at 16:27hrs | 2953 | by Staff reporter
Pregnant sex workers flood Machipisa
PREGNANT commercial sex workers have flooded the market at Machipisa shopping centre in Highfield, Bulawayo24.com has learnt.The commer...Published: 06 Jan 2020 at 06:17hrs | 8595 | by Paul Ndou
Sex workers lead Aids fight
A wave of warm air blows through the night, raising wisps of dust that make the night in Chiredzi unfriendly.But for the dozens of sex workers lining up the walls of the infamous Chigarapasi B...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:13hrs | 245 | 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 | 874 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba identifies prostitute in Parliament
ZANU-PF's Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba caused furore in the National Assembly yesterday after calling MDC Alliance leader of the House Thabitha Khumalo a prostitute, leading to her walking out wi...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:49hrs | 3943 | by Staff reporter
Cop loses AK47 while drinking with hookers
A POLICE officer allegedly lost an AK 47 rifle during a drinking spree at a night spot with prostitutes and illegal gold panners while on duty. The cop, identified only as Constable Tarwirei a...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:58hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
Drama at sex worker's burial
HOOKERS stopped a Catholic priest from giving a graveside speech with their seductive dances arguing that their departed friend was never into church.Sex workers accommodated in the Avenues hi...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 14:52hrs | 5626 | 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 | 1203 | by Staff reporter
Price madness spills to sex
CASUAL sex has become a luxury only for those with deep pockets as consumables of the adult game have skyrocketed at city pharmacies.Word on the street is that sex workers in the city have inc...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:36hrs | 1932 | by Staff reporter
Harare prophets pay prostitutes to stage-manage miracles
BULAWAYO based prophet, Madzibaba Emmanuel Mutumwa of Johane Masowe Yechishanu, has lashed out at rivals in Harare who are plotting to tarnish his image with baseless allegations.Popularly kno...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 16:52hrs | 5626 | by Staff reporter
Harare prophets pay prostitutes to stage-manage miracles
BULAWAYO based prophet, Madzibaba Emmanuel Mutumwa of Johane Masowe Yechishanu, has lashed out at rivals in Harare who are plotting to tarnish his image with baseless allegations.Popularly kno...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 16:52hrs | | 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 | 878 | by Staff reporter
+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 | 634 | by Staff reporter
Senior citizen found dead in Mvurwi
The discovery of the lifeless body of a senior citizen at house number 129, Ward One, Suoguru Township this morning has shocked the residents of Mvurwi.When Bulawayo24.com visited the scene at...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 19:39hrs | 2998 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Jealous sex workers spark pub brawl
A VICTORIA Falls man almost slit the throat of a suspected hooker when he and his brother were involved in a night club brawl with two siblings they usually hire for sex.The two women suspecte...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:28hrs | 845 | 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 | 801 | by Staff reporter
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 | 829 | by Professor Charles-PFukwa
Costly $2 sex
A HARARE man nearly met his maker over a $2 scuffle with a hooker.Passmore Marufu was pushed off a third floor apartment by Abigail Chingwaru (28), popularly known as Doshto in the Avenues are...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 15:50hrs | 3518 | by Staff reporter
The cursed citizens: 'The rotten eggs in the family!'
I was 28 years of age in 1982 when I went to Zimbabwe for the first time after independence. My mother had passed on, was going to the funeral of my mother: Mrs Sihwa. It is very normal everywhere tha...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 14:44hrs | 803 | by Nomazulu Thata
Apostle blasts prostitutes, false prophets
ZAOGA Forward In Faith International Apostle Christopher Kapandura popularly known in evangelism circles as 'MaKaps' shocked Chinhoyi community with the vulgar words he used to attack prostitutes and ...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 15:29hrs | 3403 | by Staff reporter
Hookers assault Chinese client
SEX is never for free!A Chinese man based in Bulawayo learnt the hard way that sex is not for free when he was hospitalised following an attack by a prostitute who ganged up with her friends a...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:19hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
Madzimai in sex work
A BINDURA self-styled prophet's wife is reportedly at loggerheads with hookers over clients in the Avenues area.Stella Codesta Madondo, a mother of one who is expecting another child is report...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 13:32hrs | 3768 | by Staff reporter
Man swindles investments company money ($5K), spends on prostitutes
A 23-year-old Guruve man was remanded in custody by Guruve magistrate for allegedly swindling his company's US$5800, which he blew with commercial sex workers in night clubs.Tafadzwa Chamonyok...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 08:56hrs | 1166 | by Simbarashe Sithole
HIV/Aids prevalence in sex workers is around 55%
THE Ministry of Health and Child Care estimates that there are about 44 586 sex workers in the country aged between 15 and 49 years and nearly 7 000 of them operate in Bulawayo.According to th...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:26hrs | 353 | by Staff reoorter
Supreme Court okays sex workers' march
THE Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside a 2016 High Court decision barring sex workers from holding a street march in Bulawayo to protest against abuse.The street march, which coincides with th...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:04hrs | 937 | by Staff reporter
'Only Chiwenga is fit to use men's toilets in Zimbabwe'
The Trekker has been wandering up and down for a while but has since bowed to pressure to present what he has been getting in the journeys.This marks the birth of The Trekker - a column on all...Published: 28 Nov 2017 at 15:39hrs | 5454 | by Staff reporter
Hookers celebrates Mugabe resignation in style
PROSTITUTES in Bulawayo joined thousands of residents who took to the streets on Wednesday night celebrating the resignation of President Robert Mugabe after 37 years in office by outrageously slashin...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 15:48hrs | 4743 | by Staff reporter
Man teams up with hookers to rob motorist
A 24-year-old Harare man, who allegedly robbed an unsuspecting man while in company of notorious Harare Avenues hookers has been arrested. John Dzapasi yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Mr G...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 05:31hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Hookers, truckers test for HIV, STIs
MORE than 100 commercial sex workers and truck drivers were tested for sexually transmitted diseases on Tuesday night at three sites in Victoria Falls in a one-day campaign aimed at encouraging ladies...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 06:36hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
Hyenas in sheep's clothes!
Publicly, they denounce violence. Innocently, they present themselves as ambassadors of peace, haters of disorder. Humbly, they present to the public dishonoured cheques of injustice . yet they are th...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 20:36hrs | 734 | by Craig
Prostitutes pull client's privates for $4
FOUR Masvingo sex workers have been ordered to perform community service after they undressed a Mucheke suburb man and pulled his manhood after he failed to pay $4 for overnight services rendered by o...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 07:58hrs | 1457 | by Staff reporter
Hookers off the hook?
NOTORIOUS Avenues hooker Yeukai Tsandukwa and two of her accomplices, Sharon Lianda and Gamuchirai Musviki, yesterday got a reprieve when a Harare magistrate ruled to have then removed on remand....Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 19:36hrs | 2171 | by Staff reporter
Desperate hookers terrorise suburb
The proverbial expression "the law is an ass" might have considerable meaning to victims of rampaging prostitutes here in the mountainous city.Of course the ass being referred to here is the d...Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 14:35hrs | 1881 | by Staff reporter
Body of newborn burned with garbage
A Chitungwiza resident reportedly discovered a body of a newborn baby dumped in garbage on Thursday.The resident discovered the body while burning the garbage.Residents of Zengesa 4, N...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 11:29hrs | 569 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe mulls HIV register for truckers, hookers
THE GOVERNMENT is considering introducing log books at ports of entry and at every district countrywide to monitor the movement of truck drivers and commercial sex workers who are deemed key in stoppi...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 07:10hrs | 1393 | by Staff reporter
Gweru prostitutes bombshell
IF you are the type that goes for thigh vendors and happen to be in Gweru on a lonely night, be extra careful because statistics don't lie!A National Aids Council (Nac) survey that targeted 3 ...Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 17:00hrs | 2272 | by Staff reporter
Hookers urged to take up new HIV prevention method
THE government has urged sex workers to quickly report to medical institutions to be initiated onto the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) programme to ascertain if there is a possibility of exposure to ...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 08:10hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
Over half of Gweru prostitutes HIV+
GWERU has 3 500 self-confessed prostitutes and up to 60 percent of them are HIV positive, a National Aids Council (Nac) official has revealed.Nac Gweru District coordinator Mr Murari Hwingwiri...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 06:53hrs | 1570 | by Staff reporter
Female student teachers accused of prostitution, sacked
TWO female student teachers from Seke Teachers' College, who were on teaching practice at Murombedzi Primary School in Zvimba, have been recalled on allegations of wayward behaviour and prostitution....Published: 15 Aug 2017 at 06:40hrs | 1817 | by Staff reporter
Free sex at thief's funeral
THERE was FREE sex galore in Mbare on Monday and Tuesday nights as prostitutes mourned a serial thief. They described the late thief, who succumbed to tuberculosis, as a sex maniac. Th...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 19:06hrs | 14412 | by Staff reporter
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