Panafrican News Agency - January 6, 1999
Kandeya told the country's news agency that young girls and boys engaged in prostitution in exchange for money because many of them had no jobs. Government should seriously consider giving preference to the youths when implementing the land redistribution programme to combat the problem of prostitution, he said.
"Young girls are given money by adults for intimate relationships and boys, too, are also given money by unscrupulous widows whose husbands might have died of AIDS because they have no other means of surviving," said Kandeya.
The chief said despite the traditional practice of "fencing" (runyoka) which discouraged women and young girls from extra-marital sex, once a common practice in the area, people had not changed their sexual behaviour.
Kandeya said: "If our young people had land to work on, they would not have been engaging in all these things (prostitution) because they would always be occupied."
AIDS is estimated to kill about 700 Zimbabweans every week countrywide.
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