No similar provision exists for victims of labor trafficking.
In 2009, the government began training labor inspectors to increase identification of forced labor trafficking.
In 2007, the police formally identified 87 victims of labor trafficking and 25 victims of commercial sexual exploitation.
Many men who migrate voluntarily to South Africa to work illegally in agriculture and mining become victims of labor trafficking.
In 2007, the government conducted 33 investigations-19 of them pertaining to alleged labor trafficking crimes-compared to 39 investigations in total in 2006.
The government's efforts to proactively identify male trafficking victims and victims of labor trafficking were inadequate.
The 2009 national rapporteur's report stated that the law does not precisely define where poor employment conditions end and labor trafficking begins.
The highest sentence for labor trafficking - a four-year prison term - was handed down in 2009.
The Interior Ministry reported that the number of prosecutions for labor trafficking increased from 3 in 2006 to 23 in 2007.
