White stones mark locations where soldiers died during the Battle of Isandlwana outside the town of Dundee, South Africa. All photos by the author.
A worker packs bottles of milk at Orange Grove Dairy.
Dundee Crisis Centre manager Carol Bradley (second right) alongside some of its volunteers.
"Some of these stories are absolutely sickening," Bradley tells me during a rare lull at the centre. "But this isn't just a problem here in Dundee, this is a nationwide situation."While a jarring advertising campaign from The Salvation Army Southern Africa Territory brought international media attention to the issue in 2015, national anti-human trafficking coordinator Major Margaret Stafford tells me the organisation struggles in South Africa due to deeply ingrained misogyny."Speaking at a conference on this matter a man stood up and told me that women needed to be hit every now and again to keep them in their place," Stafford writes in an email to me. "Unless we raise the level of understanding that a woman has equal status to that of a man in Africa we will never really see a downward trend in this matter."READ MORE: How Tiny Edible Gardens Are Helping This African Kingdom's Battle with HIV
Recycling is loaded onto a truck at Dundee Crisis Centre.
Volunteers at Dundee Crisis Centre help unload a delivery from Orange Grove Dairy.
According to Orange Grove's general manager Dave Durham, whose grandparents founded the dairy, the scheme has seen such success that his company has changed its date codes to try to guarantee that as much of its unsold product can be donated as possible."Now our merchandisers remove the stock from their shelves at least three days before it would be our expiry date," he tells me. "It means the consumer gets a better product and we get it back in time to be able to donate it."READ MORE: Making Soup with Sex Trafficking Survivors in Amsterdam's Red Light District
Bradley chatting to Makepeace Mchunu.