It also reveals that residents in Botswana mostly susceptible to trafficking are illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe, unemployed men and women, those living in rural poverty, agricultural workers, and children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. "Some parents in poor rural communities send their children to work for wealthier families as domestic servants or as herders where some become victims of forced labour.
Young Batswana, serving as domestic workers for extended family in some cases may be subjected to confinement, verbal, physical, or sexual abuse and denied access to education and basic necessities; conditions indicative of forced labour," the report states. The report adds that Batswana girls are exploited in prostitution within the country, including in bars and by truck drivers along major highways. The report added that Batswana who employ Zimbabwean women as domestic workers at times restrict or control the movements of these workers, or threaten to have them deported to Zimbabwe as a means to maintain their labour.
