The majority of victims identified were young women and men in transit to neighbouring countries.

• Parents in poor rural communities send children to work for wealthier families as domestic servants in cities or in agriculture and cattle farming in remote areas.
• Traffickers exploit young Botswanans serving as domestic workers for extended family. Victims may be denied access to education and basic necessities or subjected to confinement or verbal, physical, or sexual abuse.
• Criminals exploit girls and women into prostitution within the country, including in bars and along major highways.
• Women are trafficked internally or transported from neighbouring countries and subjected to sexual exploitation.
• Traffickers targeted potential victims via social media, including through advertising fake employment opportunities.
• Traffickers subject adults and children of the San ethnic minority group to labour conditions on private farms and cattle posts in Botswana’s rural west
• Traffickers subject undocumented migrant Zimbabwean children to sex trafficking or forced labour.

(United States of America Department of State, 2020)