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MP still wants to legalise Prostitution in Zimbabwe
1 October 2011
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I call them “Pleasure Managers” not Prostitutes – Khumalo
(Liverpool)She has been heavily scorned for her proposals to legalise prostitution but after three months of intense criticism, the Bulawayo East Member of Parliament Thabitha Khumalo this week accelerated her calls for the decriminalisation of prostitution saying ‘prostitutes’ must rather be called ‘pleasure managers’ instead of the former, this time tabling the justification for her proposals in greater detail.
Speaking exclusively to ZimEye, Khumalo who belongs to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party took to a new stand to defend her proposals:
“I don’t call them prostitutes excuse me, to me they are pleasure engineers…” she hinted.

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Khumalo argued stating that the primary reason why in her view prostitution should be legalised was that the law would help track and curb infections of sexually transmitted diseases. She said:
“Since they are pleasure enginneers, when they get infected with STI’s or STDs and they go to a government hospital, and they are asked to bring their partner, now how do they bring their partner when that partner is somebody else’s husband? I want somebody to tell me world over that there is a pleasure engineer that has come out in the open and given names of her client, because as I far as I am concerned in the history of this game, they have kept that confidentiality. Surely if they can keep that confidentiality, what will stop them from exposing their HIV status to their clients in order to protect them? So let’s give them the benefit of the doubt,” she proposed.
Khumalo also touched on the thorny issue of rape which has affected many minors in the country:
“The other issue we are facing again is the issue of rape of the girl-child which is a huge task for Zimbabwe. After having campaigned for almost twenty years for the girl-child to go to school the same girl-child is now being penalised again for a reason best known to the perpetrators…” she said.
“Let’s de-criminalise them and monitor them so that we are able to know the numbers and how best we can help them and monitor the treatment and education as well.”
Khumalo said she shocked other members of parliament when she first struck her first presentation before the august house.
The whole house dropped into sudden silence when she began talking, she claims:
“No I was never drowned. The house was as silent (that) I could hear a pin dropping…”, she said
Khumalo was heavily criticised in the ZANU PF controlled Herald newspaper in June which also carried a scathing attack on Tsvangirai’s party in an opinion article titled: “Hail The Party Of Sexellence!”
She was  speaking to ZimEye on the sidelines of the just ended UK Labour party conference at Liverpool. She is now headed towards the town of Oxford where she is to meet MDC branch members in the area on Saturday the 1st October.
Similar proposals are also under consideration before United Kingdom legislators after they were sounded earlier by the new UK prime minister David Cameron last year.

19 Replies to “MP still wants to legalise Prostitution in Zimbabwe”

  1. izvi zvave kutokonzeresa nokuti kana party yoda kuuraya vanhu zviri pachena bodo ndaramba kuivhotera. have you thot of the disadvantages of trying to legalise prostitution? i dont think so. iyi ndiyo mai yanakirwa nechihure but sorry in zim we can neva have such a law of destruction.

  2. MP OF CHIHURE ,NDIMI MURI KUKWEZVA VARUME VEDU KUTI VAKUITEI IMI .WHAT LESSONS ARE YOU GIVING TO THE YOUNG ONES?

  3. But if prostitution is allowed there may be a parallel market. How will the policy makers deal with the parallel market?

  4. people dont copy other countries with what they are doing its their culture to legalise prostitution but as for zim we dont need gays and prostitutes juss dont be mordenized for nothin

  5. people dont copy other countries with what they are doing its their culture to legalise prostitution but as for zim we dont need gays and prostitutes juss dont be mordenized for nothin (khumalo)

  6. THIS MADAME PROSTITUTE WILL SURELY HARM HER PARTY AND HER CHANCE OF RE-ELECTION. MA-ZIMBOS HAASATI ASHATA KUSVIKA IPAPO.THE EVIL HAS TO MANIFEST ITSELF IN THE OPEN, TO THE POINT WHERE SHE WILL JUSTIFY HERSELF THAT SHE AND THE GROUP SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HAVE SEX IN THE MARKET PLACE AND IT IS COMING TO THAT.

  7. This Minister of Prostitution, this madam prostitute, should be shipped back to her whore house.
    There is a good reason why females are never Law Givers: The female ‘value’ system is fundamentally inadequate for the task.
    If females were ever the Law Givers of mankind, there could be no order in the world.
    As a result and even though it is usually a rare case, allowing females as political leaders is very very risky.
    This Madame Prostitute (MP) is demonstrating that risk.
    To promoting prostitution in any way, is to promote a lack of dignity of females. And the destruction of the society WILL result; because loose females aren’t good mother material.
    If this MP has a man, then he must be a pimp; because no real man would allow his female to be promoting the demeaning of females. It would demonstrate that such a female promoter of prostitution is loose & extremely low class human being.

  9. The state must focus on eradicating poverty and ignorance. It is not the business of the state to regulate what consenting adults do with their own bodies. Yes the religious authorities may have their say and give moral guidence but it is ultimately a matter of individual choice and conscience.

  11. Legalized or not, like it or not, prostitution is, has been and will always be a part of mankind, wherever you are. Unlike other Western filth, pfambi dzagara dzirimo muno muAfrica medu, hapana kwadziri kuenda. Pretending otherwise is foolish & ignorant. Infact the hollow tins make the most noise; those devoid of morals speak most vocally against prostitution and yet at night ndivo vanokwira mahure shure nemberi!

  12. BLA MIKI MOUSE ungatuka zvako kusvika waguta asi chu.hu.re pasi rose zvaro hachifi chakapera. Chero nyika dzinoti death penalty kuma.hu.re still they are there saka chii chinyuwani ipapa kundipomera kunhaningirirana na MAKWEMBERE who is a decent human being? Iwe ndiwe unetsika dzechivheti kudanana naMAININI painternet kana kumbosvoda bodo. So?

  13. Neichiwo chitete chajaira kungoiswa naana Makwembere zvino choda kuti zviitwe feya feya hamunyare here shuwa kupembedza tsika yakafumuka kudaro. Aren’t you ashamed of whatever you are saying Tete vedzungu? Look at how SA’s Aids rate is. School going kids can be mothers because no one cares. If l may ask, how much does a prostitute take home besides kukwirirwa a few pints of beers? Ndiani achatambisa nguva yake nekukecha mazuva ano? Mah. ure mangani arikuenda kuchipatara kunotestwa Aids zvamuri kuti he-ee it will become easy to know who is infected and not? Primarily, is it a question of knowing the numbers of aids carriers or how to combat the diesease? Fungai mhani kwete kuti kana mafambira marara kunyika dzenyu idzo dzevachena mobva mada kuuya nemarara iwayo kuno. This is Zimbabwe mafero. Get away mhani nechipati chenyu mese murimbwa chaidzo munofurirana zvisina basa. Even iye Chematama chaiye angazvibvume izvozvo? Chete kungoti haana kukwana anogona kutoda nekuti iyewo ndisinyoro wenyoro

  14. This is western vile behavior. Whats next .. same sex marriage as we see going on in the United States.

  15. The sooner the better. Prostitution is as old as sin and is here to stay. Legalising it will be good because I think and hope that it will stop certain ages i.e. underage engaging in the trade.Also it may help in keeping track of the spread of HIV.Refusing to discussit or turning a blind eye will not make it go away. At present prostitutes are all over our streets so the law will ensure that they are confined only to certain areas. So?

  16. By just looking at the key drivers of HIV infection in Zimbabwe and also knowing that the prevalence is high in married couples as compared to any other sub -groups, it makes a lot of sense to legalize sex workers in Zimbabwe. When prostitution is legalized, the government will have more control over the prostitutes and measures like routine HIV & STI screening for prostitutes will be very easy to enforce. Currently sex workers in zim are operating at free will, and can even use one female condom for all their clients. Knowing that behavior change is a process and takes time and that, many men, regardless of who they are and where they are coming from, are more likely to sleep with one or more sex workers, it makes a lot sense to ensure sex workers don’t spread HIV. This is feasible when at least the government engages them. To ban sex work makes very little sense, as it is not only just trying to avoid the problem but also putting the whole country at high HIV risk. After all, why do people go for sex work?, there is more to it, one quick example is the very high unemployment rate. Sex workers will be around for a long time, until they find alternatives to earn a living; they will not just sit down and die of hunger. Although sex work is really bad considering our moral values, legalizing prostitution will save lives of those who will be able to preserve our heritage, integrity ,moral values etc.

  17. My fellow Zimbabweans, can we surely remain silent when our heritage, social integrity and moral values are being put to test by a minority party which, as part of its agenda is to see all the good work achieved so far being reversed? A party that promotes moral decadency? A party of sellouts, gays and lesbians who does not cherish the importance of maintaining our cultural values? Can we remain silent when representatives of this so called party of excellence keep on unleashing poison to the society? Call Prostitutes “pleasure managers”? Oh good God please give me strength!! First, we hear stories of Morgan Tsvangirai having impregnated several under twenties. Then the Zwalimba story, not forgetting Tendai Biti. And now we have this stupid Ndebele MP trying to poison us? In all it means this MDC party is an institution for promiscuity which is bent on promoting homosexuality among other social ills. We do have many pressing issues which needs the attention of our representatives in parliament but then if priority is being given to such trivial issues of promoting Aids, l do not think even the likes of Makwembere and the know all Guvnor, Anonymous or any other stupid MDC followers expect this from their leaders. Elections will bring this rot to a halt next year when Zanu PF romps to victory once again.

  18. Wat a waste of party funds to sponsor this trip,only 4 a misguided element 2 utter this rubbish.Just sick2 yo sponsored shoppin trip.I wont be 2 surprised learn that prices of party membership cards have gone up in uk

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