2023-w1548 - 30 June 2023

Nazley Khan Sharif to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities

With reference to an oversight visit in Mpumalanga with the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities during which it was discovered that there is a lack of compliance at the Themba Thuthuzela Care Centre, what is the breakdown of the total budget the six Thuthuzela Care Centres in Mpumalanga were allocated from the various departments, including the Department of Health, the Department of Social Development, the Department of Justice and the SA Police Service?

Reply from the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities on 30 Jun 2023

The budget of the six Thuthuzela Care Centres in Mpumalanga is not located in the appropriation of the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. This question may be referred to the Ministries as identified by the Honourable Member for reply.

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2019-w1509 - 05 December 2019

Mntomuhle Khawula to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities

In light of the escalating violence against lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, has she considered advocating in Cabinet for amending the (a) existing legislation and (b) Criminal Law Amendment Act, Act 38 of 2007, to include harsher minimum sentences for corrective rape and/or hate crimes in general?

Reply from the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities on 5 Dec 2019

(a)

There is adequate legislative framework that provides protection of the human rights and dignity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer, or commonly referred to as the LGBTIQ, sector. Their rights are human rights too as entrenched in Chapter 2 of the Constitution, in particular s9 (3) on the issue of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

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