How Zim Women Suffer Sexual Abuse In Botswana

Their lives revolve around running away from the police. They are Zimbabweans in Botswana. Some would surrender themselves to the police if they have given up all hope with the intention of being deported back home.

While in their search for the 'piece jobs' like washing for families, sweeping the yards and doing any menial tasks, Zimbabwean women face the worst sexual abuses at the hands of Batswana men or male residents. "If you are employed as a maid or have been offered a piece job, as soon as the wife or partner leaves, the men would literary force themselves on you telling you how they love you and how useless their partners are. It is sickening," said one Faith Gumbiti who has been travelling to and from Gaborone since 1998 in search of piece jobs.