{"id":203957,"date":"2025-08-04T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-we-dont-work-with-minors-sex-workers-rights-group-condemns-child-exploitation-in-harare\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:06:39","slug":"zimbabwe-we-dont-work-with-minors-sex-workers-rights-group-condemns-child-exploitation-in-harare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-we-dont-work-with-minors-sex-workers-rights-group-condemns-child-exploitation-in-harare\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: &#8216;We Don&#8217;t Work With Minors&#8217; Sex Workers&#8217; Rights Group Condemns Child Exploitation in Harare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A local organisation advocating for the rights of adult sex workers has issued a firm denunciation of child sexual exploitation, distancing itself from growing concerns over minors reportedly being abused in Harare&#8217;s nightlife scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Spring of Life Zimbabwe (SLZ) a group focused on promoting sexual reproductive health, safety and economic empowerment for adult sex workers, released a statement on Friday in response to disturbing reports involving street children and underage girls accessing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508040475.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local organisation advocating for the rights of adult sex workers has issued a firm denunciation of child sexual exploitation, distancing itself from growing concerns over minors reportedly being abused in Harare&#8217;s nightlife scene. Spring of Life Zimbabwe (SLZ) a group focused on promoting sexual reproductive health, safety and economic empowerment for adult sex workers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8438,7610,7207,13308,5192,500,15516,257,5100,6711,254,6100,6498,4686,421],"class_list":["post-203957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-child","tag-condemns","tag-dont","tag-exploitation","tag-group","tag-harare","tag-minors","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-sex","tag-south-africa-today","tag-work","tag-workers","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}