FOUR self-styled sex workers who were arrested in last week’s police blitz were yesterday ordered to pay $100 fine each or risk spending a month in jail when they appeared before Harare magistrate Nomsa Sabarauta.
BY PHILLIP CHIDAVAENZI SENIOR REPORTER
The four — Evelyn Mhara (40), Fungai Solomon (32), Tinotenda Mazivayi (26) and Tatenda Chigamba (23) — were convicted on their own plea of guilty to charges of soliciting for purposes of prostitution.
Mhara, who stays in Glen View 3, Harare, told the court that she ventured into the world’s oldest profession after failing to raise money for her children’s examination fees.
The mother of four and widow said on average she raked in $25 per week to cover her family needs.
“I am a widow with four children,” she said.
“I am not employed, but I survive through prostitution. I was arrested while I was trying to raise money for my child’s examination fees.”
Mazivayi told the court that she wanted to raise money for her sister’s examination fees.
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She said her sister was doing Advanced Level.
Solomon, who claimed to be a mother of three, told the court that she was forced into prostitution after failing to raise money for her father’s operation.
“I am a single mother of three and I raise $10 per day. I was trying to raise money for my father who is supposed to have an operation,” she said.
Chigamba told the court that she was the eldest in her family and wanted to raise money for her family’s upkeep.
Audrey Chogumaira prosecuted.
