H. Res. 1412 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
July 1, 2010. 
Whereas from June 11, 2010, through July 11, 2010, the 
2010 Fe´de´ration Internationale de Football Association 
(FIFA) World Cup will be hosted by South Africa and 
include games played in stadiums across the country, in-
cluding 
Cape 
Town, 
Port 
Elizabeth, 
Durban, 
Bloemfontein, 
Rustenburg, 
Pretoria, 
Johannesburg, 
Nelspruit, and Polokwane; 
Whereas the 2010 FIFA World Cup is likely to attract an 
estimated 2,700,000 local spectators and 350,000 to 
500,000 visitors to the country; 
Whereas the influx of tourism is likely to lead to an increase 
in demand for sexual services and create demand for the 
commercial sexual exploitation of women and children; 
Whereas the preparations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup 
have resulted in an influx of foreign workers; 
Whereas the hospitality industries may be particularly sus-
ceptible to labor trafficking during the 2010 FIFA World 
Cup; 
Whereas the Government of South Africa has invested in 
media campaigns and other initiatives to prevent and 
combat trafficking, such as the Tsireledzani Initiative 
and the Red Card 2010 Campaign: Disqualifying Human
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Trafficking in Africa, and has created and trained a 
human trafficking law enforcement unit which is one im-
portant element of the South African Department of So-
cial Development’s 2010–2015 Strategic Plan; 
Whereas the Government of South Africa has planned to pro-
vide shelter and rehabilitative care to victims of human 
trafficking throughout the country during the World Cup 
and beyond at Thuthuzela Centres, which exist through 
the country’s domestic violence and anti-rape intervention 
strategy; 
Whereas the Government of South Africa has ordered schools 
to be closed during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, raising 
concerns that children could be left unattended during a 
period of high trafficking potential; 
Whereas, on June 14, 2010, the United States Department 
of State released its annual Trafficking in Persons Re-
port, asserting that ‘‘South Africa is a source, transit, 
and destination country for men, women, and children 
subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced 
labor and forced commercial sexual exploitation. Children 
are largely trafficked within the country from poor rural 
areas to urban centers like Johannesburg, Cape Town, 
Durban, and Bloemfontein. Girls are subjected to sex 
trafficking and involuntary domestic servitude; boys are 
forced to work in street vending, food service, begging, 
criminal activities, and agriculture.’’; 
Whereas this release marks the 10th anniversary of the Traf-
ficking in Persons Report and no country has yet to build 
a fully comprehensive response to combating trafficking 
and protecting survivors;
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Whereas women and girls have reportedly been trafficked into 
South Africa from as far away as Russia, Thailand, 
Pakistan, Philippines, India, China, Bulgaria, Romania, 
Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Bu-
rundi, Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, 
Kenya, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Somalia; 
Whereas civil society in South Africa, with the support of the 
South African Government, has invested notable energy 
and resources into preventing human trafficking at the 
2010 FIFA World Cup through Cape Town Tourism, 
International Union of Superiors General and the South-
ern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic 
Church, the Salvation Army, the Tshwane Counter-Traf-
ficking Coalition for 2010, and many other nongovern-
mental and religious organizations; and 
Whereas in April 2010, the Durban Magistrates Court con-
victed two individuals accused of running a brothel and 
using Thai women as prostitutes of over a dozen offenses, 
including money laundering, racketeering, and contraven-
tion of the Sexual Offenses and Immigration Acts, there-
by marking the first successful convictions for human 
trafficking in South Africa: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) congratulates the Government of South Africa 
upon its first two successful convictions for human traf-
ficking; 
(2) recognizes the implementation of several ele-
ments of South Africa’s anti-trafficking strategy and re-
mains hopeful that full implementation of such anti-traf-
ficking measures will proceed without delay;
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(3) acknowledges the passage in South Africa of the 
Child Justice Act of 2008 (Act No. 75, 2008) and un-
derscores the importance of rehabilitative care of minors 
under the age of 18; 
(4) recognizes the Government of South Africa’s no-
table efforts to combat trafficking leading up to, during, 
and following the 2010 Fe´de´ration Internationale de 
Football Association (FIFA) World Cup; 
(5) recognizes the shelters and rehabilitative care 
provided to human trafficking victims during the World 
Cup through such centers as the Thuthuzela Centres 
and encourages further shelter and care programs for 
victims beyond the event’s conclusion; 
(6) calls on the Government of South Africa to 
move quickly to adopt the Prevention and Combating of 
Trafficking in Persons Bill in order to facilitate future 
prosecutions; 
(7) calls on the Government of South Africa to in-
crease awareness among all levels of relevant government 
officials as to their responsibilities under the trafficking 
provisions of the Sexual Offenses and Children’s Acts; 
(8) calls on the Government of South Africa to 
prioritize anti-trafficking law enforcement during the 
2010 FIFA World Cup through expanded law enforce-
ment presence, raids, and other measures in areas where
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trafficking for labor and sexual exploitation are likely to 
occur; 
(9) calls on the Government of South Africa to 
adopt measures to protect vulnerable children, including 
those children unattended because of school closures and 
refugee children, as well as other potential victims, from 
sexual and labor exploitation; and 
(10) urges the Government of South Africa to de-
tain and prosecute tourists participating in commercial 
sexual exploitation of women and children during the 
2010 FIFA World Cup. 
Attest: 
Clerk.