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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 08 PRETORIA 000271
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DEPT FOR AF/S, AF/RSA; G/TIP FOR STEPHANIE KRONENBURG;
G-ACBLANK, INL, DRL, PRM
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TAGS: PGOV PREL SA KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD
ASEC, PREF, ELAB
SUBJECT: PRETORIA INPUTS TO THE 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
(TIP) REPORT -- PART 2 OF 2
REF: A. STATE 05577
¶B. 08 STATE 132759
¶C. 08 PRETORIA 2249
¶D. 08 PRETORIA 2454
¶E. 08 PRETORIA 1926
(Text continues from Paragraph 9 of the "Part 1" cable.)
-- G. There has been little, if any, cross-border law
enforcement cooperation on TIP between the SAG and
neighboring countries, although DSD and IOM do assist in
victims' repatriation. As noted above, initiation of
regional joint efforts against TIP is a goal of the NPA's
Inter-Sectoral Task Team, and EU funding is being applied to
enable cross-border data sharing for TIP monitoring. The
SAPS noted a particular focus on cooperation with authorities
of Mozambique, the land border experiencing the highest
traffic in contraband goods as well as TIP.
-- H. Neither Post nor the SAPS trafficking desk is aware of
any extraditions by South Africa to other countries to face
TIP charges, nor of any requests by other nations for such
extraditions.
-- I. Post has no evidence of official SAG involvement in
TIP or institutional tolerance of TIP. Some individuals in
immigration or other law enforcement areas may have corrupt
dealings with traffickers but Post has no such evidence.
-- J. No SAG officials are known to have been prosecuted for
involvement in TIP. A multinational anti-TIP team at
Johannesburg International Airport expressed frustration that
corruption did occur among DHA immigration officials
apparently bribed by traffickers to overlook TIP. Given long
delays in investigations and low likelihood of successful
prosecution, punishment was limited to dismissal of suspected
employees. Further, strong trade unions blocked the
permanent barring of such employees from future airport work,
raising the prospect of recycling of offenders.
-- K. Prostitution is illegal in South Africa. The
activities of prostitutes, brothel operators, clients, pimps,
and enforcers are all criminal. Police enforcement can be
lax, given South Africa's exceptionally high rates of violent
crime and overstretched policing resources. Victims' rights
NGOs told us that while police generally take proper care of
victims, delivering them to shelters or alerting SAG social
workers, they then usually failed to investigate
perpetrators.
Despite headline-grabbing efforts by the advocacy group Sex
Workers' Education and Advocacy Task Force (SWEAT) in favor
of decriminalization of prostitution in 2010, we find SAG and
advocacy groups opposed to that idea, on the evidence of
increased criminality in countries which have experimented
with legalization. While enforcement will likely be uneven
outside VIP zones, as police scramble to provide security for
the games, Post does not expect formal decriminalization.
-- L. The South African Defense Forces provides troops to
peacekeeping units deployed abroad, primarily on the African
continent. While our interviewees were aware of crimes
committed by these troops, none were TIP-related.
-- M. South Africa does have a problem of child sex tourism,
Q-- M. South Africa does have a problem of child sex tourism,
particularly in its most popular destination of Cape Town.
While post has no hard data on offenders, anecdotally we
understand that client perpetrators are largely from Europe
(e.g. UK, Germany, Holland) and even the U.S., with
exploitative activities occuring primarily in rented holiday
apartments. The amended SOA expressly provides for the
exercise of South Africa's laws outside its territories
(extraterritoriality). No one to date has been prosecuted
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under these extraterritorial provisions.
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Victim Protection and Assistance
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¶10. (Responses to paragraph 26 of Ref B.)
-- A. Recent legislation provides specific protections to
TIP victims. The amended SOA stipulates that TIP victims are
not to be charged with crimes -- such as immigration
violations or prostitution -- which are the direct result of
their having been trafficked. Following extensive awareness
and sensitivity training conducted by the UNODC, IOM, and
others, police action toward TIP victims is said to be not
always perfect, but markedly more in line with this policy.
Both the SOA and the amended Children's Act of 2007, expected
to be implemented by mid-2009, commit the SAG to victims'
assistance in terms of places of safety, medical aid, and
legal support. In practice, the SAG does abide by these
commitments, although provision of these services can be
uneven, and lacking most in rural areas. The Children's Act
will give extra legal protection to vulnerable children,
especially those living and working on the street, children
with disabilities, and children affected by the HIV pandemic.
This Act further includes a requirement for planning at
national and provincial levels and uniform roll-out of
services.
South Africa was a strong participant in the "Towards the
Elimination of Child Labor" (TECL) project funded by the U.S.
Department of Labor and implemented by the IOL. Under TECL's
auspices, the SAG drafted a Child Labor Plan of Action
comprising hundreds of measures to combat and prevent child
labor, including in its worst forms like trafficking. SADOL,
still the lead agency, says many of the measures have been
incorporated into the current plans of SAG agencies, and
implementation will begin in 2009.
-- B. South Africa has a wide array of care shelters for
victims of domestic abuse, gender-based violence, rape, and
sexual assault. Although there are no specialized facilities
specifically targeted to TIP victims, trafficked persons can
access any of those other shelters. Due to the extremely
high prevalence of those crimes (e.g. a rape rate higher than
any other country not at war), assistance and care services
are well established, albeit at insufficient capacity.
Facilities are mainly run by NGOs, faith-based organizations
(FBOs) and community charities, in coordination with the
Department of Social Development (DSD). As the only body
formally authorized by judicial authorities to refer crime
victims to private shelters, the DSD must always be involved
in each case, even though it contracts with private entities
to furnish shelter and care. The DSD's Victim Empowerment
Directorate is currently undertaking a five-year review of
its 2004 'shelter strategy,' with a view to updating
accreditation procedures, promoting more uniform standards of
care, and boosting direct funding to its network of service
Qcare, and boosting direct funding to its network of service
providers.
Foreign victims have equal access to these shelters, with
South Africans. Shelters segregate women from men, for whom
few facilities exist since men comprise a small fraction of
victims. Children under 16 years of age, who are thought to
make up over half of TIP victims, are cared for in dedicated
and specialized facilities, with stringent requirements on
accompaniment and monitoring by social workers.
In a 2007 State/DRL-funded project to prompt awareness and
collaboration among care providers to TIP victims in the
inner city of Johannesburg, local NGO Khulisa found that many
shelters had assisted TIP victims without identifying them as
such, i.e. addressing and healing abuse without recognizing
signs of trafficking. In more developed provinces like
PRETORIA 00000271 003 OF 008
Gauteng and Western Cape, Khulisa found (after probing) that
about two thirds of organizations surveyed did in fact deal
with victims of human trafficking; this figure was 57 percent
in Mpumalanga province bordering Mozambique and 40 percent in
Limpopo bordering Zimbabwe.
In addition to DSD's networks of affiliated private shelters,
the SAG has established a network of Thuthuzela Care Centers
(TCCs), described in greater detail in paragraph 13 below.
Further, UNODC funding of $18 million has been committed to
the DSD's Victim Empowerment Unit to build a national network
of victim drop-in centers.
Because TIP victims are assisted through the same channels as
victims of other types of violence and abuse, and in many
cases not necessarily identified as TIP victims per se, the
SAG does not have figures for amounts spent specifically
assisting TIP victims. In the case of TCCs, which are
collaborative efforts across multiple SAG departments, each
of the partners bears the costs for the services it
contributes -- Department of Health for medical care,
Department of Justice for legal aid, and DSD for counseling.
-- C. As noted, the SAG does provide TIP victims with legal,
medical, and counseling services. All TCCs, for instance,
are staffed by doctors, forensic nurses, social workers, and
satellite NGOs providing psycho-social help. Subcontracted
services, such as for overnight shelter, are funded by DSD,
albeit at tiny levels of subsidy. (The Saartjie Baartman
Centre said it receives funding equivalent to $100 a month
for every child in its care, and $300 a month per adult
woman.) According to DSD, victims' assistance funding is
allocated in a cascade fashion, parceled from national
government to departments and then to provinces, where the
funding is spent by a combination of provincial and local
authorities. Foreign victims often do not avail themselves
of counseling or legal aid, instead preferring only critical
medical services followed by repatriation at the earliest
opportunity.
-- D. As noted, the SOA provides TIP victims with relief
from criminal prosecution or deportation. Foreign victims
are allowed to remain in the country temporarily to receive
assistance and to assist law enforcement investigations.
-- E. The SAG does not provide long-term shelter or housing
to TIP victims; its programs are meant to be emergency
response and transitional towards reintegration to normal
life. An exception is the case of foreign victims who may
agree to remain in South Africa in witness protection
programs while awaiting the trial of their traffickers.
Three Thai women are currently in this status, but it is
uncommon, since most victims want to return to their home
countries as quickly as possible, and the trial wait can
extend for several years.
-- F. DSD, SAPS, and private shelters collaborate in
attending to victims when TIP situations come to light. A
social worker may be approached by an escaped victim, or
Qsocial worker may be approached by an escaped victim, or
called by a church shelter; or police may rescue a victim in
the course of a raid; or an alert call may come through the
IOM TIP hotline. In any of these cases, DSD and SAPS notify
each other to enable rapid care as well as effective
gathering of evidence and testimony. DSD is the only agency
then authorized to refer victims to registered private
shelters, and to monitor their care, prepare them for court,
and accompany them through trial and/or repatriation stages.
DSD aims to have social workers on call, nationwide, 24x7, to
respond to new cases, but if a social worker cannot be
contacted the SAPS are also authorized to place victims in
temporary overnight shelter care rather than housing them in
police custody. These protocols, under development by the
Task Team over the last year, are due to be finalized in the
first quarter of 2009.
PRETORIA 00000271 004 OF 008
-- G. Until passage of the TIP law, TIP victims continue to
be categorized with other victims of rape, domestic abuse,
and gender based violence. As a result, there are no
available statistics of TIP victims assisted during the
reporting period, as these numbers are subsumed within much
larger headings. Even after the law is passed, lack of
recognition of trafficking victims, even among social
workers, will contribute to the absence of statistics or even
estimates of numbers of victims assisted.
-- H. NPA-contracted IOM training to police, immigration and
border officials, and social workers includes instruction in
the identification of TIP victims among sex workers,
laborers, travelers, and victims of abuse. The Thai
Embassy's TIP officer described how SAPS alerts the Embassy
and IOM in advance of raiding a brothel holding suspected
Thai victims. With Embassy translation, IOM then conducts
screening interviews with those persons found, in order to
distinguish trafficking victims from voluntary prostitutes.
-- I. Historically, TIP victims were often charged with
offenses like prostitution or immigration violations, and
foreign victims were generally quickly deported without
medical attention, legal assistance, or counseling care. The
SOA has since provided protections from prosecution of
victims for crimes committed under TIP coercion. Police are
also being trained to protect rather than punish victims. In
March, however, press reported that police intended to deport
27 Chinese women along with their seven alleged traffickers.
-- J. Victims may seek legal action against traffickers, but
despite SAG encouragement to TIP victims to do so the vast
majority prefer to return home without pressing charges,
according to the SAPS and NPA. No statistic is available on
the exact number of victims willing to testify, but the
figure above of six TIP cases opened this year is an
indicator that the number is small. Four Thai TIP victims
remain under witness protection during the ongoing trial of
their traffickers. Post received a phone inquiry from the
SAPS about digital videoconferencing (DVC) capabilities from
Thailand, and TIP officer passed this query on to the Thai
Embassy. Testimony via DVC from South Africa's Embassy in
Bangkok would be a much better option, to enable Thai victims
to return home quickly and testify remotely.
For those victims who remain in South Africa, those who are
citizens or otherwise entitled to work may naturally seek new
employment while a court case is pending. Some shelters do
offer basic trade skills training, and IOM provides small
seed capital for repatriated adult victims to launch new
legal livelihoods in their home countries. In the case of
child victims, IOM undertakes the tracing of the victim's
family through its office in the country of origin, a process
that normally lasts a few months, while the child remains
under DSD supervised shelter.
Q
-- K. As noted earlier, the SAG has conducted extensive
interagency training on TIP, including procedures for victim
identification and assistance. IOM told TIP officer that DHA
had requested supplemental training targeted to its consular
officers going abroad, but Post is not aware of any cases in
the reporting period of such assistance by South African
diplomatic missions. Typically repatriation of South African
victims is mediated by the IOM in both countries, or in a
December 2008 by contacts between SAPS and UK police who had
rescued a South African victim in Wales.
-- L. Post is not aware of any requests for SAG assistance
by repatriated South African victims, nor of any mechanism
for its provision, other than through the mediation of IOM.
-- M. IOM is the main international organization assisting
TIP victims in South Africa -- advising the SAG on policy,
PRETORIA 00000271 005 OF 008
serving as a member of the NPA/SOCA's Inter-Sectoral Task
Team on TIP, running a national TIP phone hotline, conducting
screening interviews to identify TIP victims, directly
facilitating the provision of shelter, and arranging returns
of foreign nationals. These areas of victim assistance are
alongside the IOM's extensive training of SAG officials,
research on TIP, and production of informational materials
and participation in awareness-raising campaigns. IOM
confirmed TIP officer's impression that the working
relationship with NPA/SOCA, DSD, and other SAG officials was
close and very productive.
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Prevention
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¶11. (Responses to paragraph 27 of Ref B.)
-- A. The SAG, IOM, and NGOs continue to expand
awareness-raising activities. More than 85,000
countertrafficking posters and brochures in six languages
were distributed in local towns during IOM's training
workshops, publicizing the IOM's toll-free helpline. A TV ad
aired in September drew 576 referral calls, five times the
usual volume. The above-referenced IOM survey on domestic
TIP drew press attention, raised public awareness of the
issue, and provided authorities with useful information on
TIP flows, patterns, and modus operandi.
Annual campaigns targeting the general public generated
anti-TIP media blitzes. The third annual Human Trafficking
Awareness Week (a 'best practice' of the 2007 TIP Report),
held in October, alerted the public to the TIP threat and
promoted the IOM's TIP helpline. Coordinated by the NPA,
IOM, and a popular radio station Metro FM, the week featured
a film festival, rock concert, and a blitz of radio spots.
This augmented the annual '16 Days of Activism' campaign to
end the abuse of women and children. Justice Minister Surty
has proposed making TIP a central issue in the next '16 Days'
cycle, with the busy transport route between Maputo and
Koomatiport a candidate for an anti-TIP roadshow.
As noted above, 30 IOM-spawned awareness-raising workshops
across all nine provinces drew 573 community participants,
directly spreading the word. For 2009, IOM is now launching
a series of 'indaba' style traditional village counsels with
tribal leaders, specifically targeting potential TIP victims
in rural communities. Although IOM has the lead role in
coordinating the SAG's EU-funded anti-TIP training and
curriculum development, myriad private initiatives are also
ongoing. A Catholic nuns' group has drafted a school
curriculum. In inner city areas of Johannesburg, local NGO
Khulisa has educated communities to detect trafficking, and
it is creating "referral map" posters for citizens to contact
authorities. Khulisa has a child-friendly kit for elementary
school teachers to use with their students. The Alliance of
Christians Against Trafficking (ACT) conducts scenario-based
"Traffic Proof" seminars in churches, schools, and community
halls to sensitize audiences to signs of TIP, ending with
Qhalls to sensitize audiences to signs of TIP, ending with
mnemonic games to help the public memorize the TIP helpline
number 0800-555-9999.
Looking ahead to South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA
World Cup of football, the SAG's Inter-sectoral Task Team
focused its latest meeting in December on an assessment of
2010 preparedness gaps conducted by local children's NGO Molo
Songololo and funded by regional countertrafficking NGO the
Southern Africa Network Against Trafficking and Abuse of
Children (SANTAC). Since that meeting, previously overlooked
anti-TIP prevention and child protection measures have been
added to planning agendas across SAG departments. The DSD's
Victim Empowerment directorate, for example, has been tasked
with formulating a child protection strategy. Cape Town
Tourism, a SAG-funded destination marketing organization
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which also sits on a World Trade Organization (WTO) board for
the protection of children in tourism, has proposed that Cape
Town act as pilot site for the roll-out of the Code (detailed
in paragraph 12 below).
Civil society organizations are important collaborators in
the 2010 anti-TIP efforts. ACT, in partnership with Youth
With A Mission (YWAM) and Ultimate Goal, who have
historically been involved in World Cup events globally, are
already active in enlisting a projected 3,500 volunteers from
abroad with defined skills in physical education, medical
assistance, and child protection. These YWAM staff will help
generate recreation opportunities for unaccompanied kids
flocking to fan parks when public schools are suspended
during the games. They will also distribute anti-TIP
pamphlets in game areas and man lost-children booths and TIP
information stands. YWAM's volunteer force, together with
the industry support delivered by FTTSA (below) and Cape Town
Tourism, and with the local knowledge of child protection
NGOs like Molo Songololo, should provide a powerful deterrent
to potential clients and victims.
-- B. The SAG does monitor physical flows of persons at
ports of entry, screening for behavior patterns indicative of
TIP. The multinational South African Immigration Liason
(SAIL) Team at Johannesburg Airport, for example, observes
and interviews passengers leaving the country, alert to signs
of TIP, such as adults traveling with children evidently not
their own. Other suspicious signs include one-way tickets,
same-day ticket purchase, unaccompanied minors, ignorance of
final destination, or travel rationales which do not appear
to be bona fide. TIP detection is mainly a matter of pattern
identification over time -- e.g. a suspect traveling
repeatedly in varied company for no clear reason in a short
period of time. Before boarding, flight data is mined for
known suspects by comparing it against data bases of persons
of concern. Because sufficient evidence takes a long time to
collect, and prosecution of offenders is a slim prospect as
they may switch modes of operation, the SAIL team's primary
strategy is one of disruption of detected activity, by
screening and offloading of suspects and their potential
victims.
-- C. See paragraph 8B above for details of the NPA/SOCA-led
Inter-sectoral Task Team on TIP.
-- D. Last year, Post reported that the SAG had a national
anti-TIP plan, albeit unimplemented. In more recent
discussions, NPA/SOCA said a new plan was to be drafted in
the context of the EU-funded broad-based TIP initiatives
running to the end of 2010. The NPA noted that South African
Development Community (SADC) members including South Africa
had recently committing all of its members to have such plans
by 2015.
-- E. Prostitution is illegal in South Africa, and so is the
purchasing of commercial sex services. As mentioned,
enforcement can be lax, given the competing priorities
Qenforcement can be lax, given the competing priorities
generated by South Africa's exceptionally high rates of
violent crime and overstretched policing resources. The
SAG's greatest deterrence effort is its continuing arrests
and prosecutions of violators.
-- F. Cape Town Tourism plans to convoke in late March 2009
a small, focused, and closed-door workshop (which Post may
attend as observers) among representatives of the tourism
industry, government, and civil society, to find ways to
combat sex tourism. Further efforts to deter sex tourism are
described in paragraph 12 below. These initiatives will
impact the activities of foreign tourists in South Africa,
and also South Africans who might travel abroad in future.
-- G. The South African military has prosecuted its own
troops involved in sex crimes such as rape while deployed on
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peacekeeping missions abroad. All troops involved in such
missions receive behavior and conduct training to avert
problems of sexual abuse.
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¶12. (Response to paragraph 28 of Ref B.)
Post applauds the initiative of Ms. Jennifer Seif, Executive
Director of Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA), in
introducing "the Code" against child sex tourism to South
Africa's vital tourism sector. By its full name, The Code of
Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual
Exploitation in Travel and Tourism (http://www.thecode.org)
is a worldwide campaign committing signatories to six
concrete anti-TIP actions related to institutional policy,
training, contracting, awareness-raising among clients and
counterparts, and reporting. The Code was launched by the
Swedish NGO ECPAT, on whose steering committee FTTSA now
holds one of the NGO seats, with UNICEF funding and WTO
support. For its part, FTTSA
(http://www.fairtourismsa.org.za) is a local nonprofit
encouraging tourism that is sustainable and respectful
vis-a-vis environmental resources and culture, and that is
ethical and equitable to local communities. By FTTSA's
action, South Africa will join Kenya in leading the Africa
continent towards adoption of the Code.
By its proactive and preventative nature, this initiative is
particularly welcome in advance of South Africa's hosting of
the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In advocating for the Code, FTTSA
is marshaling resources and commitments from a broad spectrum
of anti-TIP stakeholders -- from the government sector,
through coordination with the SAG's Department of
Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Department of Home
Affairs, and National Prosecuting Authority; from private
businesses, ranging from major multinational hotels and auto
rental chains, to small community cooperatives, who have
agreed to sign on; and most importantly the traveling public,
who will be encouraged to be vigilant against the sex trade
in children. Through its interest in the Code, the tourism
sector has recognized the importance of 2010 in showcasing
South Africa to the world as a safe, lawful, and ethical
destination. We urge the SAG to go beyond mere endorsement
of this initiative, and to supply tangible resources and
funding, and perhaps even regulatory incentives to encourage
the widest possible adoption of the Code in 2009.
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Best Practices
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¶13. (Responses to paragraph 29 of Ref B.)
The SAG has established an internationally lauded network of
Thuthuzela Care Centers (TCCs), essentially crisis centers to
assist victims of rape and sexual violence. The TCC model is
an integrated "one-stop shop" addressing victims' medical,
legal, and social needs, and coordinating the services of SAG
Departments of Health, Justice, and Social Development. TCCs
are not shelters -- they are not designed for victims to stay
overnight, although they can refer victims to NGOs that do
Qovernight, although they can refer victims to NGOs that do
offer shelter. Under the leadership of NPA/SOCA, 17 TCCs
have been established to date. Another 35 are due for
completion by 2011 -- 23 of them funded by an $11.7 million
contract awarded by USAID under the Women's Justice and
Empowerment Initiative, and the other 12 by UNICEF. The
ultimate goal is a total of 80 TCCs nationwide. USAID
estimates that the TCCs already serve approximately 20
percent of all victims of rape and sexual offences.
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Sources and Contributors
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¶14. Information above is derived from post meetings with
government officials, law enforcement and the judiciary,
lawmakers, academics, IOs and NGOs, diplomatic counterparts,
trainers and researchers, and members of civil society:
- Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)
- Department of Labor (SADOL)
- Department of Social Development (DSD), Victim Empowerment
directorate ('VEP')
- (Dept. of Justice) National Prosecuting Authority / Sexual
Offences and Community Affairs unit (NPA/SOCA)
- Thuthuzela Care Centers - implementing contractor 'RTI'
- (Department of Home Affairs) South Africa Immigration
Liason (SAIL) Team and border control officers, Johannesburg
International Airport
- South African Police Service (SAPS) / TIP desk
- South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC)
- Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA)
- Cape Town Tourism
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
- Royal Thai Embassy, Pretoria
- Susan Kreston, University of Free State / U.S. Fulbright
- Dr. Carol Allais, University of South Africa (UNISA)
- Khulisa (human rights NGO), Johannesburg
- Molo Songolo (children's NGO), Cape Town
- Alliance of Christians Against Trafficking (ACT), Cape Town
- Saartjie Baartman Centre (victims' shelter), Cape Town
- Anex / CDW (victims' support NGO), Cape Town
¶15. Post's interagency TIP working group coordinates
anti-TIP reporting and programs among the Political section,
DHS/ICE, DoJ/INL/Women's Justice and Empowerment Initiative
(WJEI), Economic / Labor office, and USAID.
¶16. The estimated total time spent by Post to compile this
information is 136 hours. This includes 93 hours by the TIP
officer, and 43 by the rest of post's interagency working
group. Of this, an estimated 60 hours were devoted to
interviews with interlocutors, 33 arranging and holding group
meetings, and 43 writing the reporting cable.
¶17. Post point of contact on TIP is Cassandra Carraway,
telephone 27-(0)12-431-4374 and fax 27-(0)12-431-4612.
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