Financial Gazette (Harare)
Zimbabwe: Poverty, Hunger Force Girls Into Prostitution
Nelson Chenga
6 December 2008
Nyamapanda — As the night grew darker at Nyamapanda business centre a jukebox could be heard at one of the night spots loudly playing one of Yvonne Chaka Chaka's 1980s hit songs Take my love it's free.
A crowd began swelling outside the nightclub, venue of a live performance by one of Zimbabwe's music icons, Nicholas Zacharia.
A message on the ravages of the HIV/Aids pandemic from the popular singer affectionately known as the "Senior Lecturer" that warm night could have done the trick in changing the immoral behavioral patterns in the border town if only the revellers were interested in such a lecture.
But unfortunately the main reason for attending the show was purely entertainment in an area starved of other forms of amusements outside the consumption of alcohol and prostitution, a trade that has taken root in the remote settlement and increasingly attracting younger members as poverty and hunger take their toll.
A complete collapse of the country's education system that has seen teachers emigrating or simply staying at home due to the way below poverty margin salaries has resulted in girls being forced into prostitution to survive. more
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