I am surprised that we have an Inter-Ministerial Committee that was set up in 2015 and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education is in that committee but this is happening that girls are not supposed to go to school. They are supposed to train as sisters. Mr. Speaker Sir, I will table this article from The Sunday Mail.
Trafficking in persons indicates that a database on human trafficking has detected human trafficking of human beings from 127 countries to be exploited in 131 countries. In Zimbabwe, this is rampant as girls and young women are brought from the rural areas to work in brothels as maids. If you were following electronic and print media, there was a brothel that ended up being closed where girls were being taken from the rural areas to go to these brothels and make money for the owner of the brothel. The same thing is happening with these girls who are in the streets. Some of them are not working for themselves. They are working for somebody else. When they are hired, they have to take the money and pay in to the person who brought them from the rural areas and they are given commission. There is need for the Ministry of Home Affairs as Chair of the Inter-Ministerial Committee to take heed and make sure that the brothel owners are brought to book.
Mr. Speaker Sir, on that as well, I would like to speak on this clip in The Sunday Mail Leisure that this country is now issuing licences for strippers. That the country is issuing licences for strippers to strip. They go into a bar and strip off their clothes. This one that I have a clip here is called Private Lounge, somewhere there in Harare Street, where Harare Street starts, near the flyover that goes to Mbare.
Mr. Speaker Sir, when I got this information I had to go and sit there. I wanted to see it because I could not believe it. I understand the licence says they should just strip, but not strip including stripping their under clothes, but because they go in there, they are given beer and in the beer drugs are being put there and in the end they strip off everything and dance and start having sex on the stage. The Inter-Ministerial Committee should look at this. I will also table this clip Mr. Speaker Sir.
Africa and Asia have been predominantly used as sources of victims of traffic with Europe and the Middle East as the major destination of trafficking victims. A report on human trafficking titled ‘Extent of the Problem in Africa 2005’ established that 34% of African countries…
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