Compiled by the US Department of State, the report highlighted the reality of human trafficking in South Africa and provided recommendations for the way forward:
, the United States government warns that South Africa does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking.These standards include increased investigations and convictions of traffickers, investigating and prosecuting allegedly complicit government officials, working with foreign governments on trafficking investigations and repatriating victims, and increasing coordinated labour inspections to investigate forced labour, among other requirements.
Conversely, non-profit organisations identified and referred an additional 52 trafficking victims and identified 383 potential victims through transit monitoring. According to the report, observers noted that ‘official statistics did not reflect the scope of trafficking, since institutional problems and lack of proactive screening resulted in some victims remaining unidentified by the government.
‘Law enforcement continued to lack the necessary capacity and training to effectively identify and refer trafficking victims to care. The government inappropriately penalized victims solely for offences committed as a direct result of being trafficked, including by detaining potential trafficking victims, even after identification as such by government officials, instead of referring them to care.
The report listed some key recommendations in order to assist South Africa to combat human trafficking. Some of these include: To promulgate and implement the South African Department of Home Affairs’ immigration provisions in chapters 3 and 7 of the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act, as well as sections 15, 16, and 31 to ensure the issuance of appropriate immigration status and identification documents for trafficking victims;
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