Prostitution in Zimbabwe and related acts, including solicitation, procuring, and keeping a brothel, are illegal[1][2] but thriving.
In 1983 there was a major effort to eliminate sex work in post-independence Zimbabwe by rounding up hundreds of women and detaining them until they could prove they were not involved in the trade, otherwise they were sent to resettlement camps.
[12] Khumalo, who has suggested that the word prostitute be changed to pleasure engineer, has continued her campaign despite being demoted in her party in 2012.
[13] The UK based Open Society Foundations reported in 2012 that the police are the greatest abusers of sex workers in Zimbabwe.
Many Zimbabwean adult and child migrants enter South Africa with the assistance of taxi drivers who transport them to the border at Beitbridge or nearby unofficial crossing locations and are subject to sex trafficking.