

Red Bull discovered her music through an EP she was featured on with DJ Shimza, which was eventually a part of the Soul Candi album. Rabulapha! earned her a nomination at the 22nd Annual South African Music Awards for Best Alternative Album. In March 2015, she released her studio album Rabulapha! with Transgressive Records. In mid 2020, she signed a record deal with Transgressive Records. She featured regularly on a weekend show on Gagasi FM, called Poetry with King Siso. In 2006, Sanelly started performing in shows at Durban University of Technology with a key focus in poetry and hip hop, although she did not actually call herself a poet for a long time until she noticed people's reactions. She moved to Durban in 2005 to study fashion at the Linea Fashion Design Academy and stayed there for six years. She was born into a musical family, with her brother being a hip hop producer, her mother a jazz singer, and her cousins kwaito dancers. In this exclusive investigation, 101 East exposes the Indian villages where parents sell their daughters for sex.Moonchild Sanelly was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of reported child rape cases of any state in the nation. “This practice is like the serial rape of the children … They are raped about 10 to 12 times in a day.” “The people who are exploiting the child – they are not customers, they are rapists,” says Asheif Shaikh, the founder of a local NGO that frees local girls from what he describes as sexual slavery. While India introduced tougher child rape laws in 2018, advocates say the laws are not properly enforced. But what can I do? I can’t say much because this is our tradition.”įilming undercover, 101 East discovers that girls as young as 10 are being offered to men. “I feel like I am born in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing. She now has a two-year-old daughter of her own and says she feels trapped. Meneka’s mother forced her into prostitution at the age of 15. Most of the Bachara men say discrimination stops them from getting jobs, so generations of girls have supported their families through prostitution. The girls are from the Bachara tribe, an unprivileged-caste community known as Dalits. Girls as young as 10 are being forced to work as prostitutes – and it is their own families selling them to passing truckers. A notorious highway in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is the site of a shocking trade.
