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DEPARTMENT: JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO.: 2220
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 13 NOVEMBER 2009
Dr A Lotriet (DA) to ask the Minister of Justice and Constitutional
Development:
(1) (a) How many indigenous language courts have been established
and (b) which (i)
courts are indigenous language courts and (ii) languages are
used in each of the said courts;
(2) whether an evaluation has been done on the indigenous language
courts project; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant
details?
NW2929E
REPLY:-
1. There are 31 indigenous language courts already established. The
table below depicts the indigenous language courts and the identified
dominant language based on the Statistics South Africa Report of 2001:-
Courts identified per Region
| |Province |Court |Dominant Language |
|1 |KZN |1. Msinga |isiZulu |
| | |2. Hlabisa |isiZulu |
| | |3. Impendle  |isiZulu |
| | |4. Â Nongoma |isiZulu |
|2 |Free State |1. Thabaâ Nchu |Sesotho and Setswana |
|3 |North West |Lehurutshe  |Setswana |
| | |Ganyesa |Setswana |
| | |Mankwe |Setswana |
|4 |Western Cape |1. Khayelitsha |IsiXhosa |
|5 |Eastern Cape |1. Zwelitsha |isiXhosa |
|6 |Northern Cape |1. Kimberley |Setswana |
| | |2. Calvinia | |
| | |3. Keimos | |
| | |4. Prieska | |
| | |5.Colesberg | |
|7 |Limpopo |1. Malamulele |Xitsonga/Shangaan |
| | |2. Dzanani |Tshivenda |
| | |3. Sekhukhune |Sepedi |
| | |4. Giyane |Xitsonga |
| | |5. Mutale |Tshivenda |
| | |6. Masisi Periodical |Tshivenda |
| | |Court |Sepedi |
| | |7. Mankeng | |
|8 |Mpumalanga |1.Mdutjana |isiNdebele, |
| | |2.Lydenburg |siSwati |
| | |3.Eerstehoek |siSwati |
|9 |Gauteng |Attridgeville |Setswana |
| | |Pretoria |isiZulu |
| | |Pretoria North |Sepedi and Setswana |
| | |Sebokeng |Sesotho and Setswana |
| | |Johannesburg |All indigenous languages|
| | |Soshanguve |Setswana, Sepedi, |
| | | |Xitsonga and Nguni |
| | | |Languages (isiZulu, |
| | | |SiSwati, isiZulu) |
(2) No intensive and independent evaluation has been conducted to
assess the impact of the use of indigenous languages in the
courts as language of record. However, plans are already under
way to conduct the impact assessment in each of the identified
pilot sites. The approach considered is to obtain a proper and
unbiased assessment towards the use of indigenous languages in
each of the pilot courts is by way of engaging independent
research resources.