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Zimbabwean girls forced into prostitution in Botswana

Most Zimbabwean girls who leave Zimbabwe to Botswana to seek employment end up in the streets doing prostitution. Yesterday i managed to meet almost close to 18 in Gaborone's block 8 suburb. These girls most of them are under 20years and left Zimbabwe under the illusion that it is easy to find employment in Botswana. The general conception in Zimbabwe is that there are lot of opportunities in Botswana and jobs like doing laundry, cultivating fields, selling and other domectic erands are easily available. Upon arrival they find that the things are not the way they though they could be but fail to go back home because of fear of embarasement and they engage themselves in risky behaviour like having unprotected sex leaving most of them single mothers and at the risk of the deadly HIV virus.
" We are afraid because people laugh at us accusing us of being failures. We also get money from people at home for coming here so we have to pay back and we have parents to support", claimed the 22 year old Mutare born Tavonga Mashiri who have been a commercial sex worker for three years now. " it not by choice", she continued shedding tears," i don't think anyone in her right senses can choose prostitution just for the fun of it, people should not just judge what they don't know. we are also human a feel bad, what will i tell my son when he grows up? that his dad was my customer? please i wish the world should change its perspective and consider us as human too."
Most of them refused to talk to me claiming that i will spread lies when i get to Zimbabwe. here are similar situations also in small night clubs in Mogaditsane, Sebina, Maitengwe and Tonota. Most of them expressed hope that there will be change of government next year and they will return home claiming that the current political dispensation is not creating employment and its not easy to live in Zimbabwe. Sometime in my expedition i met a classmate who threatened to beat me up and hid from the camera. My documentary is coming soon - Botswana in Zimbabwean eyes. 

crispen (mccris27@classicmail.co.za / izwimediatrust@gmail.com)

Zambia- Minister Buries money in a treasure chest.

Zambia’s law enforcement agencies have unearthed Zambian kwacha 2.1 billion (approximately $412,000) in cash buried underground at the farm of a minister in the immediate past government, the country’s police chief confirmed Friday.Inspector-General of Police Martin Malama said officers from Zambia Police, the Anti Corruption Commission, ACC, and the Drug Enforcement Commission, DEC, jointly conducted a raid on the farm of former Labour Minister Austin Liato – about 45 kilometers west of the capital Lusaka – where they found the money and vehicles.“We are doing this not for retribution or harassment; we are doing this for the development of the nation and the future of our children,” Dr Malama said.Police spokesperson Elizabeth Kanjela said the money was hidden in safes in two steel trunks buried underground, covered with a slab and protected with security alarms.She said police officers broke the concrete slabs in a two-hour operation and found the money.“We are going to investigate to know the source of this money. The way of storage of this money is illegal,” said Ms Kanjela, adding that Mr Liato would be interrogated soon.President Michael Sata, in a media statement, said he had learnt with “great shock the discovery of such huge sums of money concealed in a strange and most unusual manner” at the former minister’s farm.The “Mafia-style” under which this money was hidden raises serious questions about how the same was acquired, he said.“It breaks my heart to see how someone could go to such extremes to conceal money if it was legitimately acquired,” President Sata added.

Man rapes and murders mother in-law, defiles step daughter and hangs self

the step daughter to Sindala and far left Josephine(Sindala's wife)

Lafarge cement company in chilanga

some of the people who had gathered at the scene and in the middle of the crowd is Garry Jones a post mortem specialist

In an incident that left Chilanga residents dumbfounded a 22 year old man identified as Bwalya Sindala from farm number 22 Musoma road in Chilanga yesterday (24 November 2011) night raped his 54 year old mother-in-law before hitting her with a shovel on the head several times till death. The man who is a worker at farm number 67 Chowa road left his work place for a binge in the nearby Chisamba township where he is suspected to have taken a few drinks before he went back home where he resides with his mother-in-law identified as Regina Mulenga. When he got home he finding that his wife had taken a trip to the Copperbelt for a funeral, proceeded to his mother-in-law's hut and demanded that she sleeps with him because she had allowed her daughter to make the trip leaving him lonely. The mother-in-law is alleged to have slapped Sindala in the face before he (Sindala) dragged her inside the hut and raped her thrice in the eyes of his 14year old daughter who attempted to scream but was threatened with a knife. After the act at about 0230hrs Sindala then went for the step daughter whom she raped once before he was disturbed by the mother-in-law who had escaped trying to alert the nearby neighbors but was caught by Sindala who hit her several times on the head before she died on the spot. He then proceeded to rape the step daughter again 3 times till morning before he hanged himself on the roof of the hut. The step daughter (name withheld) managed to contact the mother Josephine Mulenga (33) on her phone who then contacted the police in Chilanga who manage to attend to the situation.