SOUTH AFRICA Inside the Free State farm suspected to be a human trafficking lair

"Livestock for sale‚" reads the nondescript blue sign that marks the boundary of a Free State farm that has attained notoriety over the past several years.

On a table inside a face-brick building‚ a receipt book‚ with two boxes of Trust condoms close by‚ lies open:

-22/12/17. Alice. 1 hour. 6:5 out 7:5. Room 6. R120.

-25/12/17. 2 hour. 5:15 out 7:15. Room 9. R240.

-01/01/18. 1 hour. 6:30 out 7:30. Room 13. R250.

Behind the reception-style room‚ which has shelves stocked with tins of Lucky Star pilchards‚ Frisco‚ Ricoffy‚ cooking oil and rice‚ is a neat row of bedrooms. Read more ...