Fashion's dirty secret: how sexual assault took hold in jeans factories

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"A lady whose children are going hungry will successfully put food on the table," said Thebelang Mohapi, who worked in the finance division. She respected the ladies outside the door with pity and dread: she comprehended that the imperceptible line among her and the "dailies" could disappear at the littlest slip up. The managers realized they held all the force. "No one at any point halted them. They did anything they desired to do."

Mohapi, at 23, realized that customary laborers were additionally being compelled to have intercourse with their supervisors to keep their occupations, yet she imagined that on the off chance that she tried sincerely and held her head down, she would go unnoticed. At the point when she passed her probation period and her chief suggested her for an all day work, she felt long stretches of pressure lift from her shoulders.

At that point, half a month later, not long before her work day was because of end, her boss came searching for her. He advised her to tail him to his office and she observed mutely as he shut the blinds and requested that her shut the entryway.