Eight Mozambican boys rescued from Chinese factory in SA tell of ordeal

09 May

Sipho Mabena

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Social workers managing the case went back to the Children’s Court in Nigel for permission to release the children from their place of safety for repatriation.

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Eight young boys from Mozambique have recounted to social workers the false promises that led them to South Africa, expecting holiday jobs to afford designer sneakers and smartphones.

Instead, they found themselves imprisoned in a factory in Nigel, southeast of Johannesburg, forced into unpaid labour day and night.

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