Human Trafficking Crisis
Move!|7 Febraury 2018

Expert says SA is a source, destination and demand country of this increasing crime

Bonolo Sekudu
Human Trafficking Crisis

THE fact that cases of human trafficking don’t often make headlines doesn’t mean that it is not happening. South Africa is actually a high risk country when it comes to this fastest increasing crime in the world. Actually, every 30 seconds a person is trafficked and one percent of those people get rescued, this according to an organisation Stop Human Trafficking of People.

LUCKY TO ESCAPE

When 22-year-old beauty therapist, Saphetha Mabona, was promised a job in Uganda, she was excited that she would be able to make a better living. Little did she know that she was being trafficked. She only found out at the airport when the Hawks rescued her after a tip-off from Interpol recently. This Eastern Cape-born woman was lucky to escape unharmed.

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