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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.
Chair, we have managed to acknowledge the fact that we have witnessed the decline of tourist arrival in 2018. However, if you now analyse on a month to month basis, you would realise that we are gradually turning the corner. If you analyse the figures in August, you would realise that we have increased the numbers to about 140 000 arrivals from 125 000 per arrivals in July. So when you make monthly to monthly
analysis you would realise that we are gradually turning the corner.
We agree that there are challenges. One of them being the issue of tourists' safety. We are working very hard with the South African Police Service to create a safer environment for our tourists. But we want to make a call that it is a collective responsibility to create safer communities. We must all work together as individuals, as a nation and as the people to make sure that we create a safer environment for our communities so that even our tourists feel safe when they come to our country.
We have deployed various tourism monitors as a department in various hot spots areas to make sure that we create safer environments for our tourists. So we are working very hard and we are gradually turning the corner. We will make sure that we reach the target that the President has set of making sure that by 2030, we have 21 million tourists arrivals. Thank you very much.