{"id":4322,"date":"2021-10-11T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators"},"modified":"2021-10-11T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T13:03:37","slug":"lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho courts SA taxi operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>THE Ministry of Home Affairs is working with taxi associations in South Africa to help identify people being trafficked across the border. The ministry believes the taxi operators could help curb human trafficking because their vehicles are used to ferry victims.<\/p>\n<p>Home Affairs Minister Motlalentoa Letsosa held an indaba with the Manyatseng Taxi Association, based in the border town of Ladybrand, at the Maseru Bridge yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at their event the Manyatseng Taxi Association spokesman, Thabiso Pitso, said sometimes they get cases of children who are trafficked to South Africa in their taxis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to hand them over to the police,\u201d Pitso said. Pitso said the traffickers are now using private cars to collect their victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe usually trace victims when their cases are reported,\u201d he said. Pitso said some Basotho women are taken to Gauteng where they are forced to engage in prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>He also said in Welkom, the mining town in the Free State, young men are lured with promises of genuine jobs but are forced to illegally work in unused mine shafts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are taken to the illegal mines where they work hard and at the end, they are killed in the shaft with gas,\u201d Pitso said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome are killed and their parts like kidneys sold out to Sangomas,\u201d he said. Pitso promised to give the Home Affairs Minister monthly reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pledge to work hard in ensuring that the people who cross are not being trafficked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d Letsosa said it requires collaboration to end human trafficking. Letsosa said the taxi associations should make it their responsibility to ensure that their passengers are not being trafficked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should ask your passengers where they are heading to,\u201d Letsosa said. He added that all suspicious victims must be handed over to the police so that they are returned home.<\/p>\n<p>He said hiking is also dangerous as some criminals use it as bait to catch their victims, adding that the issue of private cars taking people should also be closely inspected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasotho should understand that it is wrong to hike,\u201d he said. He said the collaboration between the ministry and the association will help combat human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>He talked about the issue of trucks that some drivers take Basotho women and rape them there every day. He promised to hold meetings with all the stakeholders so that they get reports. He also said most people they arrest at the airport are using Lesotho as a corridor to South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. THE Ministry of Home Affairs is working with taxi associations in South Africa to help identify people being trafficked across the border. The ministry believes the taxi operators could help curb human trafficking because their vehicles are used to ferry victims. Home Affairs Minister Motlalentoa Letsosa held an indaba with the Manyatseng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8,16],"tags":[233,246,245,309],"class_list":["post-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho","tag-taxi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lesotho courts SA taxi operators - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Ministry of Home Affairs is working with taxi associations in South Africa to help identify people being trafficked ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lesotho courts SA taxi operators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Ministry of Home Affairs is working with taxi associations in South Africa to help identify people being trafficked ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-11T12:33:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-11T13:03:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/10\/img-6164360c84e18.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Lesotho courts SA taxi operators\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-11T12:33:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-11T13:03:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators\"},\"wordCount\":417,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2021\/10\/img-6164360c84e18.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Lesotho\",\"Taxi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/lesotho-courts-sa-taxi-operators\",\"name\":\"Lesotho courts SA taxi operators - 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