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Chairperson, we welcome the message with regard to the historic day of the formation of the ANC Youth League. We also want to note that the young people across the country came to this House from the various universities. The Minister of Higher Education is going to meet with various Vice Chancellors of the universities to review the various issues that young people are raising in campuses, including their safety and issues that relates on the criminal justice system.
We are also responding to the Member's Statements with regards to strengthening Chief Justice. We are committing that the National Prosecuting Authority, NPA, is in the process of ensuring that the various gender-based violence matters are swiftly handled and with expeditious process for swift response and outcomes for the public.
The NPA has also noted 48% improvement since 2000 to 74% improvement of conviction to date on gender-based violence and various life sentences have been muted out. We are also opening a new sexual offences court this Friday in Limpopo in response
to this scourge and 92 sexual offences courts have been reopened since 2013. This is in response to the realities of gender-based violence in our country to respond swiftly, urgently and with mordenised infrastructure that is needed for these purposes. Thank you.