A 47-year-old foreign national has been arrested and 10 teenage boys rescued in Mulbarton, south of Johannesburg.
Police were alerted to a group of eight half-naked teenagers walking on foot.
HAWKS Spokesperson Katlego Mogale says officers established that the teenagers were foreign nationals who could not speak English.
Mogale says officers were also informed that there were two more boys who had already been taken away in a blue VW Jetta.
“The vehicle was later intercepted along the street, but the driver fled, resulting in a high-speed chase which ended in Commissioner Street with the subsequent arrest of the suspect and the rescue of the two half-naked teenagers. The suspect will appear in the Booysens Magistrate’s Court on Thursday the 8th of January 2026 on charges of being an illegal immigrant and suspected trafficking of persons. Further investigations are underway. The provincial head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation and Gauteng Major General Ebrahim Kadwa noted the multidisciplinary effort displayed by the team in the combating of trafficking in persons in the province.”
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