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Cape Town – A new research report – compiled by the South African Anti-Money Laundering Integrated Task Force (Samlit) – on modern slavery and human trafficking titled Follow the Money shows the Western Cape reports the highest number of cases of modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT). The Western Cape is followed by Gauteng, Eastern…
A sex worker gestures flirtatiously to passing men as she stands outside a dilapidated multi-storey building on Nugget Street in Johannesburg’s Hillbrow area. “It’s not like a hotel, [there are] no bookings. They just come, we do business and they leave,” she said while waiting to do “business”. It has been a slow day, she…
Public sex on a plane. A stable of young women “on rotation.” And allegations of a coerced menage a trois with a famed attorney—along with lurid questions about his genitalia. These are just a few of the new revelations included in a tranche of court filings unsealed by a federal judge on Monday night as…
The trial of the two men and a woman allegedly involved in trafficking women for sex, resumed in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. They are also charged with debt bondage and assault, relating to an alleged brothel off Koeberg Road in Cape Town. They have all pleaded not guilty. The trial of two…
The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) is pleased to announce seven new awards under the Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS). Starting October 1, 2022, these programs will implement innovative and transformative approaches to combat human trafficking, including a focus on financial inclusion in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; climate and displacement…
The accused in the sex-trafficking matter in court in Cape Town. PHOTO: Jenni Evans, News24 The trial of two men and a woman facing charges of trafficking in people and living off the proceeds of prostitution revealed typical punishments in the brothel. A woman who worked there when she was 14 alleged that if she…
The accused in the sex-trafficking matter in court in Cape Town. PHOTO: Jenni Evans, News24 A witness in a sex trafficking case said she was given heroin to use on the bus to Cape Town to avoid withdrawals. She testified that at first the move to Cape Town for sex work was good, but she…
We are celebrating over 30,000 interceptions this month! That’s over 30,000 people prevented from being sold into human trafficking. Here are just a few of those stories of freedom. Namibia: Woman Recruited for Drug Trafficking in Brazil, Intercepted. Suspect Arrested! A Namibian female was en route to Brazil when she was stopped by our team…
At an international conference on kidney transplantation in 1963, a disagreement broke out about exactly when a patient should be considered dead enough to become an organ donor. One doctor stood up, angrily declaring that he was not “going to just wait around for the medical examiner to declare the patient dead. I’m just going…
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