Some things never change. Abuses of migrant fishers in the ports of South Africa persist. A typical example is what the migrant fishers from the Philippines and Indonesia continued to suffer at the hands of a Chinese captain and chief engineer. They were subjected to scrupulous management on board a Taiwanese-flagged fishing vessel in May 2023. In August 2022, Hung IU 313 docked in the port of Durban with injured and miserable fishers due to