World Cup starts June 11th, read whats happening

Johannesburg — Zimbabwe’s sex workers are deserting their country for greener pastures in South Africa as the World Cup 2010 draws nearer, causing human rights and church groups worldwide to call
for measures to curb human trafficking and prostitution. But the
economic promise offered by the arrival of some 500,000 World Cup
foreign fans is already attracting impoverished workers.

“If ever there was time to make money, this is the right time,” says Shuvai, a Zimbabwean commercial sex worker working at Maxime Hotel in Johannesburg.

The 22-year-old says she arrived in Johannesburg on March 27 with eight fellow prostitutes from Zimbabwe, north of the Limpopo River. She says that she came because of all the international visitors for the
World Cup, June 11 – July 11.

The event is no stranger to the sex trade. The 2006 World Cup in Germany, where brothels and prostitution is legalized, brought on an additional influx of an estimated 40,000 sex workers – plus a lot of
criticism from rights groups. South Africa’s Central Drug Central
Authority has also estimated that 40,000 sex workers will come to
Johannesburg for the 2010 World Cup, though the agency gives no
reasoning for this figure.

A check of eight popular Johannesburg hotels – Maxime Hotel, Royal Hotel, Hillbrow Inn, Ambassador Hotel, Diplomat Hotel, Little Rose Hotel, Summit Hotel, and Orion Devonshire Hotel – and others in
Sandton, Fourways, Crego, Rosebank, Midrand, and Boksburg showed them
to be filled with newly arrived prostitutes, most of them from Zimbabwe.

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