NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 710
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Friday, 19 April 2013
INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 12 of 2013
Mr M S F de Freitas (DA) to ask the Minister of Home Affairs:
(1) (a) How many victims of trafficking were (i) identified and (ii)
returned to their country of origin (aa) in the (aaa) 2010/11 and
(bbb) 2011/12 financial years and (bb) since
1 January 2013 and (b) to which countries were they returned;
(2) (a) how were these victims processed respectively, (b) what is the
current status of each case and (c) what were the reasons for each
victim being trafficked?
NW915E
REPLY:
(1) & (2) The information is specified in the table below:
| |(aaa) |(bbb) |(bb) |
| |2010/11 |2011/12 |2012/13 |
|(1)(a)(i) |0 |18 (female) |5 (female) |
|(1)(a)(ii) |0 |18 (female) |5 (female) |
|(1)(b) |N/A |Thailand |China |
|(2)(a) | |Interviewed and |Interviewed and |
| | |reluctant to |found to be |
| | |provide details |undocumented |
| | |of the |Reluctant to |
| | |perpetrator/s |provide details |
| | |Refused to be |of the |
| | |placed in a |perpetrator/s in|
| | |place of safety |fear of their |
| | |Demanded to be |families being |
| | |visited by |victimised |
| | |officials of the|As such, normal |
| | |embassy of |processes for |
| | |Thailand â |the deportation |
| | |indicated to the|of illegal |
| | |said officials |foreigners were |
| | |their |followed |
| | |willingness to | |
| | |leave the RSA | |
|(2)(b) | |Case closed |Case was closed |
| | |after their |after |
| | |departure |facilitation of |
| | | |deportation |
|(2)(c) | |Prostitution |Prostitution |