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Podcast: Update@Noon
Episode: Department of International Relations urges South Africans to do their homework before accepting job offers overseas, days after rescuing 23 South Africans trafficked to Myanmar
Description: The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has urged young unemployed South Africans to check with DIRCO before accepting job offers overseas, especially if the offers are too good to be true. This comes after twenty-three South Africans who accepted call centre and hospitality jobs in Thailand but were trafficked to Myanmar and forced to scam people online while living under "slave-like" conditions. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Dirco spokesperson, Chrispin PhiriΒ