The proposed legislation is a response to a Knight Ridder Newspapers investigation that found some boys as young as 11 are sold or tricked into slavery to harvest cocoa beans in Ivory Coast, a West African nation that supplies 43 percent of U.S. cocoa.
Umthetho ohlongozwayo ubuyimpendulo yophenyo lweKnight Ridder oluthola ukuthi abanye abafana abancane abaneminyaka eyi-11 bayathengiswa noma bakhohliswe ebugqilini bokuvuna ubhontshisi we-cocoa e-Ivory Coast, izwe laseNtshonalanga Afrika elinikezela ngamaphesenti angama-43 kakhokho wase-US.