they could be the future of. granting opportunities global news that matters d. w. lead for minds. this. coming up on the program sex for nothing in zimbabwe bribes with sexual favors is on the rocks we hear one woman's story also coming out . on the other election when the press of his victory extends this family's grip on the country. on the prime minister has appeared in court seeking

immunity from a charge of measuring his 1st wife. and i. hello and welcome to the show we start off in zimbabwe where more than half of women have been forced into office sexual favors in exchange for jobs medical care and even a school sports for the children this is according to reports by transparency international zimbabwe that's because bribery is widespread in that country while men often have the financial means to be bribes women generally don't and many end up paying with sex well talk to someone from france france international in a bad spot to fast he has one woman's experience of being forced to pay a bribe with her body. wisin bob young woman has experienced 1st hand the pain of

having to use sex to get work the single mother of 3 wishes to remain anonymous to protect her family. went to a local company looking for a job my name didn't appear on the list of job seekers when i asked why i was told that to get a job at the company you want to have to pay a bribe to be in a sexual relationship with one of the recruiting offices. that once prosperous zimbabwe is in economic meltdown prices of ballooning and people are struggling leaving even middle class women prone to exploitation. and. i think is a painful and stressful experience but out of desperation and thinking of my family i had to do it i needed to pay my children's school fees and there was no one else who could help me and it wasn't easy but there was nothing else i could do to. stop

what this condition. and she doesn't think sexual exploitation in zimbabwe will decrease until the economic situation gets better. as i'm joined by one daughter all from transparency international zimbabwe. many thanks for your time now you are also blames the rise and such so bribery on corruption on the financial instability can you help us explain the correlation here. so thank you so much saul. what was going through the worst economic crisis the less opportunities for people to get jobs the limited opportunities only exist in the informal sector and the little kitchen it is in the form. they force women to use sex as a car to octane services like employment opportunities to force the men to use sex as a confidence to defend their life you would as they engage in formal business such

as court cross border trading so i think these that relationship between the extent to me is shrinking and providing little pitching it is and women then become vulnerable victims will be the brunt of court action of this nature. tell us why a woman being forced to pay bribes with sex in zimbabwe. so i think the reasons but i'll speak more to the main reason so the 1st thing is that bribery is the most common form. it's a pretty level in for bribe to take place. access to copy tall which is required. and then they have now forced to use sex as something of value. so i think chief among that is the very fact that women by gender stereotypes the op can find liberating the rejected economy so you 6 then he is used as a car in c. . but is it within the context of but i bought it being

a pet this fall. and the corruption which i think has been included in all culture . how serious really the effects of sextortion. so the effects of succession i think the unimaginable i think. you need to link it up with the shelf section to productive healthy where we have had cases where some women i think the infected with hiv virus hiv virus as a result of sex part of it i think is a ball to the trauma that. this. is a cot in c. . we're also speaking about women most if we might be and the impact of feet on the family. not to disclose this form of question for fear that the familial breakdown for fear that this will be them some of these women are

actually students. so i think we need to look at it from a victim perspective from my kids took as perspective as. does. all free men can find in the disability was survived by selling tomatoes. so i think these are some of the impacts. them the impact in terms of. being infected by sick. and productive healthy like hiv aids. now you mention that this sort of thing has become like a culture in society and that's very serious so how do we tackle sextortion. i saw them 234 things that the government does about what needs to to do that i

think the under the seat needs to take into the very fact that this form of corruption does exist but the point. that they use this form of corruption if it told it is. sexual abuse all domestic abuse so i think the under corruption all needs to glean into this reality the 2nd and most important thing is to depart. i put institutions with women chose to report and it. fits that is the police i think if you talk about the police and it is talking about many i think even in europe so i think they need to put a friendly face some of these institutions thank you very much farai it was under a from transparency international zimbabwe. now in west africa because president ford has won a 4th term in office opposition candidates have alleged there was organized fraud

in the election polls today. to be lation after a crushing election victory president in big ten's his 15 year rule as well as his family's grip on the country which began when his father took power and 5 decades ago. monday togo's electoral commission announced he was reelected with 72 percent of the for. the candidate of the union for the republic party mr. as was enough for. his provisionally proclaimed elected president of the totally his republican. base victory was expected in the land of 8000000. who sometimes. i'm overjoyed at the total ease people are so happy song and why. is it so

today is a great day for us we did so much to win we have worked hard and it gave results so we were sure we were going to win. you on at the supermarket any booze up woman he promised us and again tonight he came to reassure us that he will stick to his promises i trust will do so. the opposition is crying foul. the main opposition candidate accuses the authorities of setting up fake polling stations ballot stuffing and getting people to cast multiple votes and yes in base favor the divided to position struggle to launch a concerted campaign to unseat yessing be the president says the people have decided. this is the game of democracy. the toga least people have expressed themselves. we must respect their choice to. stop improvising and stop inventing imaginary

numbers. that. the final results expected to be announced by the supreme court in the coming days. now prime minister bonnie has made a surprise appearance in court room a swear swirling that he has fled the country after he failed to attend because hearing into the matter of his 1st wife on friday. bonnie was gunned down outside his home in my seat who just 2 days before her husband took office as the feast of bitter divorce bonnie is arguing that his office gives him immunity from prosecution. i'm joined by reports on the qua non the tiny cyril for an update on the story hello many thanks for your time so so tell us what where the arguments made in courts that eventually led to the case being to fred well

one key issue that the prime minister. put before the mud just to court and this is the lowest court in the sotu that the supposed to charge him with an attempt at maida and the argument was that as a sitting prime minister charging him with a criminal offense can present a constitutional crisis for the kingdom of his so too so what he's saying is that the constitutional court which is mandated to rubble or to in top ridge the constitution in the so too must now make a determination whether in fact he can be charged as a minister now there's a lot of pressure on him to step down what is likely to happen now. well you know that he said he will step down either in july or before that provided. and party process is called before then but what now happens is that his political to the

opposite invention has been meeting time and time again he is not seeing eye to eye with his national executive committee and that national executive could be too wants him to step down however the members within his political party who are members of parliament who have a small power than the national executive put me to us saying they want someone else to take over us so now the question is who takes over when top cop on the steps is it someone who is 2nd in the party as 5 members of parliament are concerned or is it someone else that the party will put for what are the parties in parliament to agree ok i guess only time will tell the time me and thank you for your time. and that's a fun hour from d.w. you can catch all the stories on our website. now the cycle race the for the rwanda said on monday i'm not part of the race so me the next best way to celebrate events

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sexual harassment and so the global spotlight welcome to arts and culture i'm joined by our film reporter scott roxboro scott what exactly does this verdict mean for the film industry. well i think this is a real reckoning for the film industry a lot of people within hollywood who are hoping for more serious convictions against whites who might be disappointed by the outcome of this trial but i think the fact that a man who was once so powerful as harvey weinstein was within the film industry i mean this a man who who had around 81 oscars to his name through the various productions that he did the fact that a man like that could have been brought down all brought down in this way and will serve jail time for the crimes that he committed suggests that no one is too powerful to to not face justice and i think that's a major shift from just a couple of years ago where the kind of activities that harvey weinstein felt

guilty of were almost accepted as part of the way of doing business in hollywood i think that is over and that powerful man.