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Six girls and women aged between 14 to 21 were on Tuesday rescued from a dilapidated building in Joburg known to be a brothel and allegedly owned by Nigerian nationals.
The rescue of the young girls whose ages are between 14 and 21 was carried out on Tuesday after the EPWP (Expanded Public Works Programme) workers in the city, informed the police that the brothel had been housing young women.
Ingula Nature Reserve. Photo: ramsar.org
NATIONAL NEWS - Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister, Barbara Creecy, has welcomed the declaration of the Ingula Nature Reserve as a wetland of international importance by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance.
The nature reserve sits along the northernmost part of the Drakensberg mountain range, between the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal.
The site falls within the Northern Drakensberg Strategic Water Source Area (SWSA) and a National Freshwater Ecosystem Priority Area and is made up of hillslope wetlands, pans/depressions and floodplains.
This addition brings the number of South Africa’s Ramsar Sites to 27 covering a surface area of 571.089 hectares.
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