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Chairperson, I just want to confirm that the National Prosecuting Authority, NPA, and the South African Police Service, are working very well on the matter and it is being attended to. The issue will be resolved.
On the statement by hon Maseko-Jele of the ANC with regard to the opening of the Mpumalanga High Court, we want to say that it was a historic event. It is an event that will enable people of that province to access courts wherever they are because, it has got various circuit courts in the various parts of the province such as Kwa- Mhlanga, Mkobola, Barberton and Graskop. So it will be able to service most parts of the province - with also the state of the art technology, including victim friendly facilities that will enable victims of crime to testify without any fear or favour. But it will also be used as a platform for a new generation of practitioners in the province in the mould of various esteemed practitioners of our country.
The High Court opening was preceded by the opening of the Bityi Magistrate Court in the Eastern Cape and also the
official opening of the renovated Mthatha High Court, which we have also given it the state of the art technology to enable communication between inmates in correctional facilities, who can postpone cases through technology.
This is a new generation of our courts which will enable us to access justice throughout the country and this kind of new generations of our courts is going to break the apartheid spatial planning. It will enable access for our people, it will also enable new practitioners to be able to come to the fore and to the entire transformation of the justice sector. Thank you.