![]() “We tried to phone their parents, but they were both working in Zimbabwe. We stayed with them at school until 5pm, waiting for social services to turn up. “When the social workers didn’t show up by Friday, we refused to let the children leave. “We called social services, but they didn’t come straight away so we had to let the girls go home with their father’s cousin, who picked them up from school each day. They’re from Zimbabwe, and their English isn’t very good. “We asked who was hurting them, but we were struggling to understand them. When a colleague asked her why she was standing up during the lesson, she said her vagina was sore. ![]() “The next day, her sister (who’s in a different class) couldn’t sit down. When I spoke to her after class, she said everything was fine. “The children sitting around her were complaining about it. “It’s that odour when you haven’t washed yourself after intercourse. “It was a Wednesday in 2019, and one of the little girls in my grade 1 class came in smelling like sex. She spoke with Bhekisisa’s reporter Nicole Ludolph on condition of anonymity, because of threats she received from the trafficker, and to protect the two girls. * Bridgette August (not her real name) is a primary school teacher in Cape Town. ![]()
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