Abstract
ABSTRACTDetermining 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.
Highlights
Human trafficking represents, for many, the dark side of globalisation – an unconventional threat to the territorial and moral authority of the state and one of the most salient social problems of the twenty-first century
The first human trafficking task team formed for this purpose was the KwaZulu-Natal human trafficking, prostitution, pornography and brothels task team (KZN task team) which was established in October 2008
Using the KwaZulu-Natal intersectoral task team as a case study we analyse the efficacy of this counter-trafficking model within the context of current counter-trafficking governance in South Africa
Summary
For many, the dark side of globalisation – an unconventional threat to the territorial and moral authority of the state and one of the most salient social problems of the twenty-first century. As more states grapple with the complexities of human trafficking, the need for effective and efficient countertrafficking governance structures is apparent. Counter-trafficking in the interim is devolved to un-resourced provincial task teams. Lauded by South African anti-trafficking practitioners as one of the most successful task teams in the country, its ‘4P model’, based on prevention, protection, prosecution and partnerships, has been widely emulated.
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