Zimbabwe is a transit country for trafficked Somalis and Ethiopians en route to South Africa. Internally, there are various ways that victims are trafficked:

• The practice of ngozi, giving a family member to another family to avenge the spirits of a murdered relative.
• Traffickers lure women and men into exploitative labour situations in agriculture, construction, information technology, and hospitality largely in neighbouring countries.
• Women have been lured to China and the Middle East for work.
• Traffickers lure students to Cyprus and elsewhere with false promises for education via scholarship schemes.
• Zimbabwean adult and child migrants enter South Africa with the assistance of taxi drivers who transport them to the border at Beitbridge, or nearby unofficial crossing locations, where traffickers exploit them.
• Some migrants are transferred to criminal gangs that subject them to abuse, including sex trafficking in Musina, Pretoria, Johannesburg, or Durban.
• Traffickers exploit some victims in South Africa to months of forced labour without pay, on farms, at construction sites, in factories, mines, and other businesses.
• Traffickers transport men, women, and children, predominantly from East Africa, through Zimbabwe en route to South Africa; some of these migrants are trafficking victims.
• Refugees from Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo reportedly travel from Zimbabwe’s Tongogara Refugee Camp to Harare, where traffickers exploit them.
• Traffickers force Chinese nationals to work in restaurants in Zimbabwe.
• Chinese construction and mining companies in Zimbabwe reportedly employ practices indicative of forced labour, including verbal, physical, and sexual abuse, as well as various means of coercion to induce work in unsafe or otherwise undesirable conditions.

(United States of America Department of State, 2020)