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Counter-trafficking governance in South Africa: an analysis of the role of the KwaZulu-Natal human trafficking, prostitution, pornography and brothels task team.

Francis, Suzanne
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Emser, Monique
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University of Chester; University of KwaZulu-Natal
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2017-04-04
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Determining the efficacy of available counter-trafficking strategies is just as important as understanding the phenomenon of human trafficking itself. This is so if anti-trafficking practitioners wish to make in-roads in preventing and combating human trafficking in South Africa. At the heart of the matter are the ways in which counter-trafficking governance is structured in the South African context. In this article we use the KwaZulu-Natal intersectoral task team, an un-resourced agency of provincial government mandated to prevent and combat human trafficking, as a case study to analyse the ‘4P model’ of counter-trafficking favoured in South Africa. We find that while such an integrated model has great potential, issues of institutional cooperation and coordination, pervasive public official corruption and budgetary constraints hamper its current impact and efficacy. We conclude that these issues must be addressed by South African policy-makers once legislation has been promulgated.
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Emser, M., & Francis, S. (2017). Counter-trafficking governance in South Africa: an analysis of the role of the KwaZulu-Natal human trafficking, prostitution, pornography and brothels task team. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 35(2), 190-211.
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Taylor & Francis
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620949
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10.1080/02589001.2017.1309363
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Contemporary African Studies on 4-4-17, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2017.1309363
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35
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0258-9001
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1469-9397
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