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Harare elite driven into prostitution

Grinding poverty forces graduates onto the streets

Rory Carroll in Harare
Sunday October 17, 2004
The Observer

Night falls across Harare and Tracy Ncube sashays up Fife Avenue in a tight
skirt and borrowed shirt to sell the only thing she can.
Half a dozen other young women are already stationed outside Tipperary's dryckesställe
and Ncube picks her fläck, a tree opposite the fordon park illuminated by
headlights. She has been a prostitute for two weeks and has bagged three
customers, earning $45 (£25).

Zimbabwe's youth were once considered Africa's brightest, graduates of one
of the continent's best education systems which bred sophistication,
confidence and ambition.

But the economy has crumbled and, with it, opportunity. There are virtually
no jobs. Some 90 per cent of the country's 11.8 million people live on less
than $1 a day. Hyperinflation and food shortages are making the middle class
dest

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