Legalising sex work in Botswana

Botswana women have come a long way in fighting for their rights and getting due recognition as equals to their male counterparts in different sectors. Today as sex workers are hounded by the police and abused by clients, MMEGI Staff Writer CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI finds out whether the call by BONELA to legalise sex work would work in this country as it has in countries like Sweden and Holland.

Picture a sex worker being picked up at her spot or house by a client who is the man who has offered to pay for her services. They get into his car and drive away and maybe it is just early evening. He knows exactly what he wants to do with her but she does not know. She thinks he is just one of many clients who wants to have sex with her because he is not getting enough at home. He drives away into the dark and a bit out of town.

The two are the only ones aware of the events that take place there but the unfortunate part is that she will not be home anytime soon after being dumped into a thicket at the outskirts of the city. She has bruises all over her face, her body and bite marks on her neck. The people who assist her want to know what has happened but she tells them she only needs a lift into town but will find her own way home. She arrives home and narrates what happened to her roommates who are in the same business.

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