2024-w29 - 16 April 2024

Busisiwe Joyce Mkhwebane to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

What (a) are the reasons for the delay in gazetting the Code of Conduct for Legal Practitioners, (b) steps has he taken to (i) expedite the gazetting process and (ii) ensure its timely implementation and (c) measures have been put in place to mitigate the effects of the delay on the transformation of the legal profession?

Reply from the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on 16 Apr 2024

The Code of Conduct for Legal Practitioners referred to by the Honorable Member has been published by the Legal Practice Council on the 29 March 2019 (Government Gazette No 42364 of 29 March 2019) and is available on the website (www.lpc.org.za) of the Legal Practice Council.

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2024-w620 - 16 April 2024

Christian Themba Msimang to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

(1)With reference to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) investigation into the breach of procurement processes for personal protective equipment (PPE) in his department, what (a) additional oversight mechanisms are being considered and/or implemented to strengthen his department’s procurement processes and (b) measures has his department put in place to ensure transparency, fairness and competitiveness in future procurement processes; (2) What is the current status of the recovery efforts for the funds lost due to the unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure identified by the SIU in its investigation into the non-compliance with procurement processes for the PPE; (3) What steps has his department taken to (a) address the systemic issues that allowed such a significant breach of procurement policies and (b) prevent a recurrence of such events?

Reply from the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on 16 Apr 2024

(1)(a) Department of Correctional Services (DCS) developed a departmental control committee to ensure that procurement to the value of R1 million is approved by the committee. The terms of reference are to ensure daily oversight on procurement transactions, with focus on procurement wherein bidding processes are not followed.

(1)(b) DCS reports all procurement processes through National Treasury and furthermore the procurement manual including delegation ...

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2024-w182 - 09 April 2024

Janho Engelbrecht to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

(1)What were the offences committed by each of the 16 472 inmates who were released from prison in terms of the special remission programme; (2) whether the inmates who have reoffended will be required to continue serving their original sentence as a result of (a) being arrested, (b) charged and (c) found guilty of another offence; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on 9 Apr 2024

1. Information on crimes committed by each offender released in terms of the special remission programme is attached as Annexure 1, it should however be noted that subsequent to verification a total of 16 074 offenders were released and not 16 472 as stated in question.

(2)(a) A total of 13 504 offenders were unconditionally released as they had reached their sentence expiry date upon ...

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2024-w456 - 05 April 2024

Darren Bergman to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

(1) What is the (a) total number of prosecutors from the National Prosecuting Authority who work on the cases of the National Lottery Commission (NLC) and (b) time period that the same prosecutors have been allocated to the NLC cases. (2) what (a) total number of cases (i) have been handed to each prosecutor, (ii) has each prosecutor decided to prosecute and (iii) that have been prosecuted have been finalised with an outcome and (b) were the outcomes in each case?

Reply from the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on 5 Apr 2024

I have received the following response from the National Prosecuting Authority:

1. (a) Initially one prosecutor was allocated the matters. An additional prosecutor was subsequently tasked to assist, as the workload increased. Prosecutorial resources are reviewed regularly to manage the increasing workload.

(b) The cases involving the NLC were assigned to the initial prosecutor in the latter part of 2020.

2. (a)There are a ...

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2024-w225 - 05 April 2024

Xola Nqola to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

(1) What progress has been made in turning around and addressing the challenges at the offices of the Master of the High Court to date; (2) what is the progress regarding the piloting of the online registration system?

Reply from the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on 5 Apr 2024

On 24 November 2024, the Master of the High Court committed to implementing immediate/short-term interventions as part of the Master’s turn-around strategy. The progress and the implementation thereof is reported as follows:

a) Intervention 1: The roll-out of the Deceased Estates Online system nationally by January 2024.

b) This intervention is assisting the Masters in addressing challenges of long queues, long turn-around times in ...

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2024-w455 - 05 April 2024

Darren Bergman to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

(1) What (a) is the name of the National Prosecuting Authority prosecutor who was given a National Lottery Commission dossier in 2020 containing details of four grants that were given to questionable nonprofit organisations, (b) total number of the four cases did the prosecutor decide to prosecute and (c) were the outcomes of the prosecutions. (2) whether there was a decision not to prosecute; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant detailed reasons (a) for which such a decision was made, (b) that there has been no outcome of the prosecution and (c) for such a delay?

Reply from the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on 5 Apr 2024

I have received the following response from the National Prosecuting Authority:

1 (a) It is confirmed that experienced prosecutors are assigned to manage all cases emanating from the National Lottery Commission. As a matter of policy, the NPA does not divulge the name of prosecutors assigned to cases, particularly during the investigation stage.

(b) There are 11 NLC - SIU referrals that are being ...

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2024-w584 - 05 April 2024

Janho Engelbrecht to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

(1) What (a) is the total number of chickens that died before being sent to the abattoir during the week of 26 February 2024 to 1 March 2024 at the animal production farm of the Drankenstein Correctional Facility, (b) are the detailed reasons leading to the death of the chickens and (c) is the (i) total number of people currently employed in the abattoirs and (ii) breakdown of the number of persons who have the knowledge and experience with meat inspection; (2) whether his department procured the services of a private company to do meat inspections; if not, why not; if so, (a) what total amount did it cost his department and (b) on what date did his department procure the services; (3) what does it cost to feed a chicken from day-old to slaughter at the animal production farm of the Drankenstein Correctional Facility?

Reply from the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on 5 Apr 2024

(1)(a) According to the service level standards, chickens may be slaughtered from forty-two (42) days of which none of the chickens that died during the mentioned period had reached 42 days. It should be noted however that a total of five thousand seven hundred and sixty nine (5769) chickens twenty-eights (28) days old, died during the week of 26 February 2024 to 1 March ...

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2024-w248 - 05 April 2024

Werner Horn to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

What (a) progress has been made with the implementation of the Master’s Turnaround Strategy since its adoption in 2023 and (b) are the relevant details of the backlog faced by the Master’s Offices as at 31 December 2023?

Reply from the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on 5 Apr 2024

On 24 November 2024, the Master of the High Court committed to implementing immediate/short-term interventions as part of the Master’s turn-around strategy. The progress and the implementation thereof is reported as follows:

a) Intervention 1: The roll-out of the Deceased Estates Online system nationally by January 2024.

This intervention is assisting the Masters in addressing challenges of long queues, long turn-around times in issuing ...

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2024-w585 - 27 March 2024

Janho Engelbrecht to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

Whether he has considered granting medical parole for inmate Mathys Johannes Cloete, number 215767450, detained at Zonderwater Correctional Centre; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on 27 Mar 2024

The medical parole application of the mentioned offender was presented to the Medical Parole Advisory Board (MPAB) on 30 November 2023 and the application was not recommended based on his clinical state and current investigations which will allow for future treatment.

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2024-w181 - 27 March 2024

Janho Engelbrecht to ask the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

(1)What (a) total number of inmates who were released in terms of the special remission programme have reoffended since 27 October 2023 and (b) offences were committed by each offender; (2) whether the specified inmates have been readmitted to correctional facilities; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services on 27 Mar 2024

1. (a) A total of 326 offenders were released from 27 October 2023 to 02 November 2023 which is the project end date. Of the 326 offenders released, 02 offenders reoffended.

1. (b) Crimes committed by each offender are as follows:

No.

Offences Committed

 

House breaking with intention to steal and Theft

 

Assault

2. Details of Inmates readmitted to Correctional Centres ...

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