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The Independent UK
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Mogomotsi Magome

7 Chinese sentenced to 20 years each for trafficking and forced labor in South Africa

South Africa-Chinese-Trafficking - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A court in Johannesburg sentenced seven Chinese nationals on Wednesday to terms of 20 years in prison each for trafficking people from Malawi and forcing them to work at a factory in South Africa.

The group was convicted on Feb. 25 of trafficking 91 undocumented Malawian nationals from 2017 to 2019 to work at a cotton fabric factory in Village Deep, an industrial area in the south of Johannesburg.

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