South Africa is being used as a destination and transit point as well as a source for human trafficking, the International Association of Women Judges was told at a conference on Thursday.
Public Prosecutions Director Thoko Majokweni said: "Mozambican women are trafficked to the mines and sometimes to Kwazulu-Natal province."
"Malawian women are sold by Nigerian syndicates... to Germany, Italy and Belgium, and this all happens via South Africa," she added.
Majokweni said that Russian and Bulgarian women were exploited in private clubs and venues in Johannesburg.
The official said that necessary legislative reforms were underway in South Africa to halt trafficking.The South African Law Reform Commission prioritized finalizing the Combating of Trafficking in Persons Bill in order to make human trafficking a criminal offense in the country.
One of the key issues in the bill was the amendment to the definition of the action of trafficking itself.
Source: Xinhua
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