The Weekend View

Community awareness and action vital for combating human trafficking


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Police in Johannesburg are still on the lookout for up to 30 men whom they believe escaped through a smashed window before police swooped on a suburban home housing trafficked foreign nationals. This after they managed to rescue 26 undocumented Ethiopian nationals who were being held captive without clothes at the house by suspected human traffickers. According to preliminary information from the rescued men, the group was held in the house in Sandringham, in northern Johannesburg without clothes or documents.  The Hawks were YESTERDAY appealing to the community of Sandringham and surrounding areas to report any sightings of the escaped naked people. Last August, police found more than 80 undocumented Ethiopians locked in a house in the same suburb in inhumane conditions and without adequate food and personal hygiene facilities. To talk to us more about the scourge of human trafficking and what happens to rescued victims, Bongiwe Zwane spoke to Celeste Louw, Training Manager at TEARS Foundation, a crisis intervention, advocacy and counselling organisation

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