Sex workers undeterred by Covid-19 pandemic
MWAPE MWENYA and BAMBE CHINYEMBA, Lusaka DESPITE the devastating health and economic effects of Covid-19, its business as usual for commercial sex workers in Lusaka’s brothels and popular night pick-up…
Sex workers turn to mental health drugs
NKOMBO KACHEMBA, Kitwe
SOME commercial sex workers in Kitwe are reportedly using drugs for mental illnesses to lace drinks for their unsuspecting clients to make them oversleep and steal from them. (more…)
THE sex workers were exposed to marketing skills and how to write a business plan, among other entrepreneurship skills. Right, some of the sex workers who participated in the entrepreneurship training in Chipata.
Sex workers recount abuse, trade risks
DARLINGTON MWENDABAI, Chipata
“WE want to change. But we need God and capital (for business). We also want to be married,” a sex worker said at a training programme in Chipata recently. (more…)
Kitwe sex workers shun empowerment
NKOMBO KACHEMBA, Kitwe
THE Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) has bemoaned the current trend where commercial sex workers on the Copperbelt are shunning Government programmes aimed at empowering them, opting for quick money through their usual business.
Sex workers in top gear during Christmas
Gender Focus with EMELDA MWITWA
OBSERVING activities of the festival season, I took notice of how commercial sex workers position them-selves to rake in more income during this season.
Moving around the capital Lusaka in the evening of the just-ended month, I spotted sex workers parading themselves on Parirenyatwa Road.
SOME of the former sex workers who recently underwent TASINTA programmes pose for a picture with Minister of Higher Education Nkandu Luo and Chief Chitina (fourth from left). PICTURE: KALUNGA MUSONDA
Former Mkushi sex workers set to mend ways
KALUNGA MUSONDA, Mkushi
AS a small girl, Ruth Tembo had made up her mind to be a nurse when she grew up.
Of prostitutes on the loose
TORN APART with BOYD PHIRI
IT IS not always that you hear prostitutes trekking to another town en mass in search of greener pasture.
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Sex workers target retrenched miners
NKOMBO KACHEMBA, Kitwe
MUFULIRA district commissioner Zakeyo Kamanga has expressed concern over the influx of commercial sex workers in the mining town who are after the retrenched miners’ benefits.
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