This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. For more info see our Cookies Policy. A Special Assignment undercover team is in the Mozambican capital for a meetingโฆ with a human traffickerโฆ a man who trades and smuggles in human beings.
We meet him in one of the suburbs. He takes us to a house to show us his wares. UPS smuggler I think its four. UPS smuggler Ja. Can you first look and then choose? Lets go and see. The consequences are overwhelmingโฆ broken lives, rape, sexual exploitation and abuse. And yetโฆ it is not illegal. Neither in Mozambique nor South Africa.
People say the trade is rifeโฆand that is why Special Assignment came to Maputoโฆto find the men - and women - at the helm of a dark and dirty trade. For a long time she has spoken out against human trafficking. Very few parents speak because they fear death from the men who recruited the girls. I mean one can go to work and you expect to find your family at home and the next thing a child is missing.
IOM is an inter-governmental organisation that has just completed an investigation into the trafficking of Mozambicans to South Africa. They'll transport the girl the girl will come into the country, they will take the papers away from her and then she is told you are not going to be working in a restaurant as I told you are going too be doing sex work. We see a country of gold and diamonds And we expect everything marvellous from there.
UPS - Jonathan Martens - International Organisation for Migration They are vulnerable because they are offered things that meet their dream expectations. What they want is they want to come to South Africa for example and get a job UPS - Willem Vorster - Department of Home Affairs And then when they come into South Africa they find that the papers are not valid and that they are not being used or put into a position that they were promised that they would be put in.
