A businessman…[ Mr E Zhuang ]…appeared in the Zastron Magistrate’s Court…on charges relating to child labour after being caught with seven children, aged between nine and 13, working…at his warehouse... [D]irector of provincial operations for the labour department Marsha Bronkhorst said “[a]s the Department of Labour, we will…ensure that the law runs its course and that justice prevails for these children”… Zhuang who owns a wholesale and retail business, had employed the children to load stock for transport…The[y]…were made to travel in these trucks and deliver the goods to surrounding towns…in the middle of the night…[T]he children, who had been working for the suspect for three years, worked without getting any remuneration. Instead they got a…fizzy drink and a packet of biscuits after every shift.