For a South African victim of human trafficking, this was the endgame. On a freezing night last July, Sindiswa, 17, lay curled in a fetal position in bed No. 7 of a state-run hospice in central Bloemfontein. Well-used fly strips hung between fluorescent lights, pale blue paint flaked off the walls, and fresh blood stained her sheets, the rusty bedpost and the linoleum floor. Sindiswa had full-blown AIDS and tuberculosis, and she was three months pregnant. Sweat poured from her forehead as she whispered her story through parched lips covered with sores. A few blocks away, the roars of rugby fans...
South Africa's New Slave Trade and the Campaign to Stop It
In South Africa, host of this year's World Cup, thousands of women and girls are held as modern-day slaves. E. Benjamin Skinner takes a rare look inside the underworld of sex trafficking--and one man's campaign to stop it
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