. Of these 1088 recommendations, 545 were referred to the NPA- the reminder were not due to the fact that the 'allegations were unsubstantiated and did not warrant a recommendations to be forwarded to the NPA'. The highest number of recommendations were referred by the Western Cape (118 out of 131), followed by Free State (102 out of 161), Limpopo (96 out of 139) and North West (95 out of 106). Despite generating 164 recommendation reports, Mpumalanga only referred 43 of these report to the NPA. Out of the 27 reports generated by Gauteng only 10 were referred to the NPA.