The Hawks (the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation) collaborated with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to compile evidence and build cases. The government did not comprehensively monitor or investigate forced child labour or the labour trafficking of adults in the agricultural, mining, construction, and fishing sectors. (United States of America Department of State, 2020)

Despite various actions, NGOs continued to allege official complicity was common. DHA operated a hotline that could receive reports of potential trafficking cases; A21, a South African NGO, operated a National Human Trafficking Resource Line. (United States of America Department of State, 2020)

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The years of 2018 and 2019 had the same numbers for the use and the result of the trafficking resource line. The number of victims identified was less than one per cent (0.9%) of the number of calls received. (United States of America Department of State, 2020)

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Potential cases investigated have reduced over the last three years from 82 to 36 to 24 in 2017, 2018, and 2019 respectively. The number of cases investigated decreased by 71% from 2017 to 2019. In 2019, the sex trafficking cases investigated were twice those of labour. (United States of America Department of State, 2020)