Boitumelo Matsekoleng died yesterday after having been in ICU at the Pietersburg Provincial Hospital for the past two weeks UPDATE POLOKWANE – “A 34-year-old man was rescued by police after having been assaulted by the community. He was then arrested,” Police Spokesperson, Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said. The man was charged with abduction, rape and murder. POLOKWANE […]
BY NEWS STAFF Police across Ontario and Quebec say they’ve dismantled a sophisticated human trafficking ring run by an organized crime group that allegedly forced dozens of women and underage girls to work in the sex trade. On Wednesday, police in York Region announced more than 300 charges after 34 search warrants were executed last week […]
Law lecturer at Vaal University of Technology (VUT), Arvitha Doodnath, was found dead inside her car near the Joburg Zoo in Parktown on Saturday, in what appeared to be an attempted hijacking, EWN reported. She was a law lecturer, gender activist and Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) researcher, according to Times Select. Doodnath reportedly led a campaign against gender-based […]
Children, young girls – some as young as 9 years old – are being bought and sold for sex in America. By JOHN W. WHITEHEAD Children, young girls – some as young as 9 years old – are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years […]
The South African Council of Educators said it dealt with complaints of corporal punishment, verbal abuse, sexual misconduct and rape. by Babalo Ndenze CAPE TOWN – The South African Council of Educators (SACE) on Wednesday told Members of Parliament that reports of sexual abuse by teachers rose by more than 230% in the last five years. The council […]
A U.N. report revealed that 87,000 women were murdered last year, and over half were killed by intimate partners or family members By Alanna Vagianos The most dangerous place for women is in their own homes, a new report from the United Nations concludes. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released the “Global […]
by NORMAN CLOETE Cape Town – She did what she did every day: take a taxi to and from work. Eerste River to Bellville was her daily routine. But one afternoon, all that changed for a young mother who was raped in a taxi outside a mall. Kelly, whose identity is being withheld, is an […]
A Fort Worth Child Protective Services employee was arrested for soliciting children for sex. Adrian Martinez, 44, is charged with online solicitation of a child and was taken to the Tarrant County Jail on Tuesday. A CPS spokesperson says Martinez was removed from caseworker duties and placed on administrative leave as soon as they learned […]
By DUNCAN GUY People need to realise that indulging in pornography and buying sex fuels the market for human trafficking and the cycle of abuse. This is according to ex-Hawks investigator Marcel van der Watt who is now a Unisa academic specialising in human trafficking. “People using these services care little whether they involve victims […]
Highest number of calls received originate from Gauteng and the Western Cape. By Roodepoort Record Photo: Pixabay. For illustrative purposes. The shocking number of missing persons reports that cross our journalists’ desks has encouraged the Record to investigate human trafficking, with a specific focus on the West Rand. Many of these missing persons are children. […]