police not aware of problem.(News)

BYLINE: QUINTON MTYALA

POLICE often did not understand the difference between the trafficking and smuggling of human beings across international borders.

Marie Martinez, of the US Department of Homeland Security, said South Africa was a "source, transit and destination country" for those trafficking humans.

She was sent to SA by the US State Department "to assist" the SA Police Service and NGOs involved in fighting trafficking with needs they had identified. From Cape Town she is to attend a conference of judges in Johannesburg as the main speaker.

Martinez said although awareness had been raised about the sexual trafficking of women, there …