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Foreign nationals will need work permits to sell sex legally in South Africa

“So existing laws would effectively apply. When it comes to the issue of foreign migrants selling sex, they will not be able to sell sex unless they have a work permit or if they have the ability and the right to work – asylum seekers, refugees and those kinds of categories. So, it will be the existing laws apply, and obviously those laws must be applied.” South African Deputy Minister of Justice and Correctional Services John Jeffrey.

Dec 09, 2022 Read more

Sex workers on the streets despite virus restrictions in Zimbabwe

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.

Jun 17, 2020 Read more

Sex workers scramble for operating space in the wake of coronavirus

By Raymond Jaravaza

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.

Mar 28, 2020 Read more

Night time HIV testing a hit in Masvingo

The National Aids Council (Nac) says the moonlight HIV testing seems to be paying dividends as more people are coming forward for HIV testing at night.

Nov 08, 2018 Read more

‘Sex-workers should be able to retire at 40’

A SEX worker has advocated for a retirement age from sex work and peer enforcement of minimum age restrictions to reduce the exploitation of under-age girls by older women and unruly clients.

Nov 04, 2018 Read more

Hwange prostitute haven shut down

Police in Hwange have shut down a popular hub of commercial sex work and crime in the coal mining town much to the delight of residents who have welcomed the move as they had on numerous occasions complained against its existence.

Oct 31, 2018 Read more

Hookers descend on Beitbridge citrus farms

By Mashudu Netsianda 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 increase in sexually transmitted infections in the border town. A Chronicle news crew went out to investigate prostitution activities at the two popular citrus farms […]

Oct 22, 2018 Read more

7 000 hookers in Bulawayo! – Health ministry avails shock stats

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.

Dec 11, 2017 Read more

Daring sex workers rob man, take nude pics

Three daring sex workers, who robbed a man at gunpoint before taking nude photos of him and using them to blackmail him into releasing his bank passwords, have run into trouble with the law.

Nov 12, 2017 Read more

On behalf of the ‘invaders’

By Liberty Dube A local daily newspaper this week carried a headline which read as follows “Young Sex Workers Invade Victoria Falls”. The story which followed this headline was inhuman at best and sad at worst. For some time I wondered whether the spirit of Ubuntu still existed in our beloved nation or it had […]

Apr 19, 2017 Read more