Exploitation Purposes (Prostitution) in Southern Africa Before, During & After the 2010 Fifa World Cup Games
SANTAC Rapid Assessment on the possible Abuse & Trafficking of Children for Sexual
Exploitation Purposes (Prostitution) in Southern Africa before, during & after the 2010 FIFA World Cup Games
The case of Zambia & Namibia conducted from July to Sep. 2008
Presented at SANTAC Regional & National Conference on Preventions
Interventions against Child Trafficking:
Sharing Lessons Learned and Developing Ways Forward
Pestana Rovuma Hotel and Conference Centre, Maputo 8-9 Oct. 2008 by Merab Kambamu Kiremire
Initiator/Director of MAPODE
(Movement of Community Action for the Prevention and Protection of Young People against Poverty, Destitution, Diseases & Exploitation) Zambia, Uganda & Namibia)
Vice President of SANTAC General Assembly
P.O. Box 40833, Windhoek, Namibia
E-mails: merabkambamukiremire@yahoo.co.uk, mapode@iway.na;
Background/Introduction
• This study followed the Maputo Dec. 2007
Referral System mtng which recognized that:
• Soccer, today, as the World’s contemporary Mega sport, stands as the most popular sporting event
• It attracts millions & millions of corporate & individual financiers, players, administrators & funs • It generates billions upon billions of revenues
• It commands social, economic & political power and influence
Background: FIFA World Cup, Leisure & Tourism
- Like all other games, soccer games are closely associated with leisure -So, during these World Cup games, it is not only the players, soccer administrators and national government representatives who travel for the games but thousands upon thousands of soccer funs travel to watch the games too.
-During and after the games, such travelers also take time to rest, see new places and indulge in modern-day pleasures of good food, shopping, site-seeing and learning new things.
-Consequently, by its very nature, soccer is associated with tourism
-Such leisure and indulgence, often times, encompasses sex pleasure This is why such travels are
Exploitation Purposes (Prostitution) in Southern Africa before, during & after the 2010 FIFA World Cup Games
The case of Zambia & Namibia conducted from July to Sep. 2008
Presented at SANTAC Regional & National Conference on Preventions
Interventions against Child Trafficking:
Sharing Lessons Learned and Developing Ways Forward
Pestana Rovuma Hotel and Conference Centre, Maputo 8-9 Oct. 2008 by Merab Kambamu Kiremire
Initiator/Director of MAPODE
(Movement of Community Action for the Prevention and Protection of Young People against Poverty, Destitution, Diseases & Exploitation) Zambia, Uganda & Namibia)
Vice President of SANTAC General Assembly
P.O. Box 40833, Windhoek, Namibia
E-mails: merabkambamukiremire@yahoo.co.uk, mapode@iway.na;
Background/Introduction
• This study followed the Maputo Dec. 2007
Referral System mtng which recognized that:
• Soccer, today, as the World’s contemporary Mega sport, stands as the most popular sporting event
• It attracts millions & millions of corporate & individual financiers, players, administrators & funs • It generates billions upon billions of revenues
• It commands social, economic & political power and influence
Background: FIFA World Cup, Leisure & Tourism
- Like all other games, soccer games are closely associated with leisure -So, during these World Cup games, it is not only the players, soccer administrators and national government representatives who travel for the games but thousands upon thousands of soccer funs travel to watch the games too.
-During and after the games, such travelers also take time to rest, see new places and indulge in modern-day pleasures of good food, shopping, site-seeing and learning new things.
-Consequently, by its very nature, soccer is associated with tourism
-Such leisure and indulgence, often times, encompasses sex pleasure This is why such travels are