May 16 2012 at 10:07am 
By Lungelo Mkamba IOL news
"Five women, believed to be from Thailand, were detained when the police raided a suspected brothel in Morningside, Durban, on Tuesday. A police source said the police were now searching for the owner of the Second Avenue house, who was suspected of being part of a human trafficking syndicate...
Heads of two United Nations bodies have taken a firm stand against human trafficking, especially child trafficking, in the tourism sector by pledging to stamp out this hidden scourge through joint efforts.
Mr Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), have therefore called for a concerted global action at every level of society to fight the problem.
"More than 70 percent of grade 11 and 12 pupils who admitted to being sexually active in an Eastern Cape survey do not practise safe sex, it was reported on Monday. The Dispatch newspaper in East London surveyed 500 teenagers from schools across the city. The children were asked to fill in a questionnaire. Their answers showed that 51 percent were sexually active and, of those, 72 percent were practising unsafe sex.
