The sex hub of Gaborone

Monday, June 23, 2014

The Gaborone West shopping complex has styled itself as the sex hub of Gaborone at night. If you drive or walk in the mall by the Shell filling station, the vision of skimpily dressed commercial sex workers in all shapes and sizes offering sex for money decorate the streets.

Most of the commercial sex workers who are trading there are from Zimbabwe. There has been an influx of Zimbabwean commercial sex workers in Botswana since the neighbouring country started facing economic ruin around 2000.

One would have easily thought the prostitution business in G-West would be declining following the closure of a popular night-club in the area after it was gutted by fire in 2012.

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The sex hub of Gaborone

The Gaborone West shopping complex has styled itself as the sex hub of Gaborone at night. If you drive or walk in the mall by the Shell filling station, the vision of skimpily dressed commercial sex workers in all shapes and sizes offering sex for money decorate the streets.

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