Introduction: Exploitation, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Misrule in Africa
In Chap. 11, Josiah Brownell provides a different context to Africa's sordid experiences with foreign exploitation and occupation using the case of apartheid South Africa. Seeking to create a false sign of respect for the rights of Africans to self-determination, the apartheidSouth Africangovernment actively encouraged Rhodesia and …
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South African Full Decriminalization of Prostitution Bill Won
The South African bill did not include any measures to thwart buyers," said Dr. Marcel van der Watt, Research Institute Director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, who has dealt extensively with trafficking and sexual offenses committed by buyers in South Africa's trade from both a law enforcement and research ...
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An exploration of corruption and human trafficking: The south …
An exploration of corruption and human trafficking: The south african case. Motseki Morero Moses1*. Abstract: Human trafficking and corruption are closely related criminal activ- …
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How waste from the mining industry has perpetuated apartheid …
While Hecht focuses on South Africa, mining continues across a world moving toward a sustainable future where minerals such as copper, nickel, lithium, and …
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Violations of farm workers' labour rights in post …
This ongoing exploitation and abuse of farm workers in South Africa must be contextualised, both historically and in relation to …
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Social media makes it easier for human traffickers to
The internet has revolutionised human trafficking. It has presented recruiters with more convenient ways to connect with targeted victims, usually with fake job offers, or to find buyers for their products, such as human kidneys, and even to livestream acts of exploitation, writes Jane Marie Ongolo.. Key to any human trafficking operation is the …
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The Society for Conservation Biology
Introduction. Africa is on the verge of an unprecedented mining boom. This boom is attracting tens of billions of dollars in foreign investment (Janneh & Ping 2011; Zhang 2011) and will result in substantial economic growth and development, but it also carries big risks for African societies and the environment.Here we highlight potential …
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Human trafficking and the new legal framework in …
Human trafficking for sexual exploitation, as the most documented type of trafficking both internationally and in South Africa, was the focus of this study as it poses significant challenges to response efforts whilst …
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Trafficking? Exploring the relevance of the notion of
The trafficking of children for purposes of sexual exploitation – South Africa. Cape Town: Molo Songololo. Rapid Assessment of impact of 2010 FIFA World Cup on the abuse, exploitation and ...
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Poverty and inequality in South Africa: critical reflections
This is according to the upper-bound poverty line of R992 per person per month, in 2015 prices (Statistics South Africa, 2017 ). Worryingly, poverty is highest among young people, with 63.7% of children under 17 years and …
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Migrant mineworkers and South Africa's diplomatic relations with
South Africa had migration policy that established cooperation with both Botswana and Lesotho. Despite apartheid South Africa's limited political freedoms or lack of democratic credentials before 1994, the country was able to forge diplomatic relations based on migrant labour with Botswana and Lesotho (Taylor, Citation 1987; Wilson, …
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(PDF) Data mining and biological sample exportation from South Africa
Discovery Health, one of the leading healthcare funders in South Africa (SA), will offer genetic testing to its members for USD250 (approximately ZAR3 400) per test from 2016. On the surface, this ...
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OPINION | We need to make sense of the transactional debate
At the 2022 Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Africa Summit, the Centre Against Sexual Exploitation South Africa (CASE-SA) addressed delegates on the human rights and public policy rationale underlying the legal regime regulating prostitution in South Africa. According to CASE-SA, a change in the legal regime is only justified if ...
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Violations of farm workers' labour rights in post-apartheid South Africa
1. Introduction. The relationship between commercial farmers and farm workers in South Africa has been complex and multi-layered since its origins in 'master-slave' relations at the Cape of Good Hope in the seventeenth century (Waldman Citation 1996; Williams Citation 2016), but has always been characterised by power asymmetries …
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Is Big Tech Setting Africa Back?
Data colonialism is rampant on the African continent. Smart regulation can stop it. By Nima Elmi. A worker stands in front of a banner for Google AI during a presentation marking the opening of ...
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Accessing Occupational Health Services in the Southern African
Abstract. Only 15% of the global population has access to occupational safety and health services. In Africa, only 5% of employees working from major establishments have access to occupational health services (OHS). Access to primary health care (PHC) services is addressed in many settings and inclusion of OHS in these …
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Okavango, Oil Drilling, and the Tragedy of Africa
Nnimmo Bassey. May 12, 2021 Common Dreams. The quest for profit in a predatory economic system has made it possible for humans to willfully ignore extractivist crimes unfolding in broad daylight. A clear case is the clawing into Namibia's Okavango Basin in search of hydrocarbon resources by ReconAfrica, a Canadian oil prospecting company.
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Negotiating around 'Human Trafficking' in South Africa and the …
For Gunne, an expert on human trafficking, who worked for the UNODC office for Southern Africa, this dominance was due to the fact that "it is much easier to talk about trafficking [than about exploitation for domestic work], partially because it is so far from (…) [the everyday life of most people in South Africa, including the ...
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The Expropriation of Land Without Compensation in South Africa: …
Since the twentieth century, there have been increasing calls for the acceleration of land reform in South Africa. While, the emergence of multiparty politics in South Africa in the year 1994 promised to usher in a new era for governance and democracy‚ sadly‚ little has been achieved with reagrds to the equal ownership of land, …
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Why does South Africa encourage the exploitation of workers?
But enriching a few people through agents while exploiting poor black people is much too convenient. Just as they were exploited in Apartheid South Africa, they …
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Sustainable Development in Mining Communities: The Case of …
Mining has played a fundamental role in South Africa's economic development, starting with the diamond rush to the Kimberley area in 1870 and the gold …
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Human trafficking in Mozambique: root causes and …
(iom (may 2003) seduction sale and slavery: Trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation in southern africa) South africa is increasingly emerging as a destination country in the trafficking of children for sexual exploitation and forced labour. children as young as eight are reported to be trucked daily through the Kruger national ...
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China-backed cobalt mines in Congo exploit 40,000 child workers
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) produces more than 70% of the world's cobalt, 15% to 30% of which is produced in artisanal mines. For years, these small-scale operations have been notorious ...
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Corruption: Africa's undeclared pandemic
Members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) carry placards as the take part in a nationwide strike over issues including corruption and job losses in Cape Town, South Africa ...
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Marine Biodiversity in South Africa: An Evaluation of Current
Continental South Africa has a coastline of some 3,650 km and an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of just over 1 million km2. Waters in the EEZ extend to a depth of 5,700 m, with more than 65% deeper than 2,000 m. Despite its status as a developing nation, South Africa has a relatively strong history of marine taxonomic research and …
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(PDF) EXPERT REFLECTIONS ON CHALLENGES …
The Act employs a wider definition of trafficking than that of the UN. According to the Act, a person is guilty of trafficking if he or she delivers, recruits, transports, transfers, harbours, sells, exchanges, leases or receives another person within or across the borders of the Republic" for the purposes of exploitation (South Africa, 2013).
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Business leaders fear that South Africa risks becoming a failed state
The blackouts caused South Africa to go from being the most reliable among MTN's 19 African networks at the start of 2022 to possibly the worst a year later. The largest supermarket chain says ...
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Labor Exploitation in the South African Mining Industry …
Introduction This paper surveys the theme of exploitation of laborers in extractive industries, looking specifically at the mining …
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Human Trafficking: The South African Experience | SpringerLink
Within the Southern African sub-region, South Africa is a human trafficking destination. Human trafficking victims from different parts of Africa, as well as from Eastern Europe, Asia and South America, have been found in the country. To a certain extent, it is also a transit country; however, more international trafficking into the country is ...
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