Nine sex slave probes in Eastern Cape

Specialist police units have launched nine investigations into human trafficking in the Eastern Cape‚ with Port Elizabeth and East London the hotspots‚ according to authorities.

The nine form part of 15 ongoing investigations across the country into criminal activities that include sexual exploitation‚ drugs and cheap labour.

This emerged in the wake of the conviction last week of a domestic worker who recruited – and rented out – three children in a sex-for-hire scandal involving a farmer in Stutterheim near King William’s Town.