This is only the beginning of a collection of extensive research done in South Africa. As copyright permission is received, the documents or links will be shared.
List of sections below:
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Legislation
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Juju and Human Trafficking
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The Male Perspective
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Organ and Body Part Trafficking
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Ukuthwala - Forced Marriage - Child Marriage
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Other Research (including Reports & Links to websites)
Legislation
JuJu and human trafficking
The Male Perspective
Organ & Body Part Trafficking
Ukuthwala - forced marriage - child marriage
2012 - Article - van der Watt & Ovens - Conceptulizing the practice of Ukuthwala within South Africa (Copyright permission from Child Abuse Research in South Africa Journal)
Other research (including reports & links to websites)
2023 - Press Release - National Human Trafficking Research
2022 - Report - Van der Watt - TIP in SA - Prevalence Insights from the Criminal Justic System & Relevant Reporting Mechanisms
2022 - Resources - The Toolkit for Hope-Based and Solutions-Oriented Journalism About Human Trafficking
2022 - Report - GI-TOC - Strategic Organized Crime Risk Assessment South Africa
2022 - Report - ILO WalkFree IOM - Global Estimates of Modern Slavery Forced Labour & Forced Marriage
2022 - Report - Trafficking in Persons Report Narrative for South Africa
2022 - Report - Trafficking in Persons Report
2022 - Newsletter - CPA UK July Marcel van der Watt contribution
2022 - Report - A21 Impact Report 2021 for South Africa
2022 - Report - Bureau of Market Research - YRU@BMR Online Youth Omnibus Survey - Online child sexual exploitation and abuse
2022 - Report - ILO - Durban Call to Action on the Elimination of Child Labour
2022 - Report - IOM - World Migration Report with Chapter 10: HT in migration pathways
2022 - Article - Warria - Trafficking and Exploitation of Children in Fragile Environments: Is Prevention Possible?
2022 - Article - NCOSE - Why Sex Buyers Must Be Stopped and How To Do It
2021 - Report - Levitt - Health care needs of victims of human trafficking through the views of psychosocial practitioners
2021 - Article - Anja Visser - Child labour is a matter of national concern: What is the curriculum doing about it?
2021 - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: South Africa
2021 - Report - Trafficking in Persons Report exploitation: Challenges, Perspective, and Social Context
2021 - Study - Botha Warria - Challenges of social workers providing social services to adult victims of human trafficking in select shelters in SA
2021 - Epilogue - Winterdyk & VdWatt - Forced Labour
2021 - Guidelines for Those Requesting Survivor Speakers South Africa
2021 - Guidelines for Survivor Speakers South Africa
2020 - Article - Grobbelaar Jones - Childhood Vulnerabilities in South Africa
2020 - Report - UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
2020 - Policy - National Child Care and Protection Policy 2019
2020 - Report - Bark’s Annual Report: 2020 Research on Teens and Tweens (Bark is a parental control phone monitoring app to help keep kids safer online. Bark monitors social media, text, and email on Android and iOS devices.)
2020 - Report - Freedom Collaborative - Malawi's Human Trafficking Routes with references to South Africa
2020 - Abstract - Bello & Olutola - The Conundrum of Human Trafficking in Africa
2020 - Thesis - Patel - Strengthening the enforcement of policy to combat human trafficking A netowrk approach for improving collaboration
2020 - Article - Warria - Stateless Transnational Migrant Children in South Africa: Implications and Opportunities for Social Work Intervention
2020 - Study - Warria - “The child goes back to the trafficking situation”: Consequences of inappropriate assistance procedures during reintegration of child victims of trafficking
2020 - Report - Walker et al - Centre for Child Law - Child Trafficking in South Africa: Exploring the myths and realities
2020 - Policy Brief - Walker et al - Centre for Child Law - Child Trafficking in South Africa: Exploring the myths and realities
2019 - Abstract - van der Watt - A Complex Systems Stratagem to Combating Human Trafficking
2019 - Report - Bureau of International Labor Affairs - Findings on the worst forms of child labour South Africa
2019 - Article - Emser & Van der Watt- #Stillnotfound_Missing Children in SA
2019 - Thesis - Kotze - A missional appropriation of human trafficking for the sex work industry
2019 - Report - Trafficking in Persons Report
2018 - Thesis - van der Watt - Investigating human trafficking for sexual exploitation: from ‘lived experiences’ towards a complex systems understanding
2018 - Abstract - Warria & Chikadzi - Socio-legal assistance to transnational child victims of trafficking in South Africa (Child Abuse Research in South Africa, 19(1): 82-91)
2017 - Article - vd Watt & vd Westhuizen - (Re)configuring the criminal justice response to human trafficking : a complex-systems perspective Police Practice and Research, 2017 VOL. 18, NO . 3, 218–229
2016 - Report - UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (South Africa under Sub-Saharan Africa page 112)
2016 - Report - Trafficking in Persons in SADC region Baseline Report link in Statement by SADC Executive Secretary
(South Africa page 39)
2015 - Abstract - Prinsloo - Ukuthwala as an aberrant traditional practice : the State versus Nvumeleni Jezile 2014 WCD
2015 - Article - Buthelezi - Human trafficking and the new legal framework in SA Intervention needed for the law to reach vulnerable girls and women
2015 - Thesis - van der Westhuizen - Co-Mapping the maze - a complex systems view of human trafficking in the Eastern Cape
2015 - Directory - Global Modern Slavery Directory - Modern slavery is a global issue that affects every country in the world. The NGOs, multilateral institutions, government stakeholders, and law enforcement agencies working to combat it must be able to identify each other and connect across borders. Otherwise, opportunities for learning, sharing promising practices, and collecting critical data will not be fully realized.
2014 - Article - Velani Mtshali - Forced child marriage practiced under the pretext of customary marriage in South Africa (Copyright permission from Child Abuse Research in South Africa Journal)
2014 - Article - Farley et al - Online Prostitution and Trafficking (Copyright permission from Albany Law Review 2013/2014 Volume 77.3 Pages 101-158)
2012 - Article - Kruger Oosthuizen - South Africa Safe Haven for Human Traffickers? Employing the arsenal of exiting law to combat human trafficking
2012 - Article - Swart - Human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in a Southern and South African context (Child Abuse Research in South Africa Journal)
2012 - Article - van Graan - The quality of service of the family violence, child protection and sexual offences unit of the South African police service, post-2010 (Copyright permission from author and from Child Abuse Research in South Africa Journal)
2011 - Article - Swart - Problems surrounding the combating of women and child trafficking in Southern and South Africa (Child Abuse Research in South Africa Journal)
2011 - Article - Kruger and Oosthuizen - Looking behind the mask of confusion towards a better understanding of human trafficking (Copyright permission from Child Abuse Research in South Africa Journal)
2009 - Article - van Zyl and Horne - A policing perspective on the investigation challenges of child trafficking in South Africa (Copyright permission from author)
