South Africa struggles to limit human trafficking – USAID report - South Africa under-reports human trafficking cases and is poor at apprehending perpetrators
South Africa remains a key source, transit, and destination for trafficked people, with few successful prosecutions against perpetrators.
A research report by the United States Agency for International Development and research partners launched this week says the number of ongoing and successful TIP prosecutions by the government is “disproportionately low when compared to data from civil society, available police statistics [and] media coverage”.
The report identified 44 successfully prosecuted TIP cases between 2007 and 2022, of which sex trafficking cases were the majority at 36. Only 77 traffickers were convicted — 50 of them South Africans.
“Reasons include that TIP is dependent on police action and is ‘under-reported, which makes it difficult to measure’ … and due to ‘incorrect incident allocation and the lack of a specific TIP crime code’. A process of filtering information to avoid these inaccuracies, is undergoing [sic] by SAPS,” the report says.
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