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UNDERGARMENTS

In 2012, Zimbabwe became the third country in Africa to ban the same of secondhand undergarments.

The legislation made it illegal to import or sell "articles of secondhand undergarments of any type, form or description, whether purchased, donated or procured in any other matter."

Commenting on the new law, one Zimbabwe newspaper described it as "one of the best laws that our country has put in place in recent years."

The Zimbabwean legislation closely followed that of Rwanda, which banned the sale of secondhand underwear at the end of 2011, and Ghana which banned it in 1994, but only began enforcing the law in 2011.


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