This news aggregator site highlights South African labour news from a wide range of internet and print sources. Each posting has a synopsis of the source article, together with a link or reference to the original. Postings cover the range of labour related matters from industrial relations to generalist human resources.News24 reports that four Thai women were rescued from a Pretoria house on Thursday where they had allegedly been held for a month against their will for sexual exploitation.
According to Hawks spokesperson Colonel Katlego Mogale, one of the women escaped from the house in Garsfontein and alerted police. The women were enticed to SA with promises on Facebook of massage therapist jobs. According to Mogale, the women were used to gratify people sexually, and their captors then kept the payment received for their services. Mogale reported: “This prompted the involvement of law enforcement and social services. The information was followed up, and contact was made with one of the victims who was still held against her will at the premises. Three more victims were rescued after members of the Hawks, Tshwane Metro Police Department and local police accessed the premises.” Three people, all foreign nationals, were arrested during the operation. They are expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Monday to face charges of trafficking in persons. It was previously reported that a study by the US Agency for International Development and local research partners, Khulisa Management Services and Wits University, found that the number of human trafficking prosecutions in SA was disproportionately low compared to the "prevalence of the phenomenon in South Africa".
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard complied by Nicole McCain at News24
- Read too, Hawks, SAPS, government departments implicated in human trafficking report, at Sunday Independent
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