PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
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FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO: 260
Mr P B Mnguni (Cope) to ask the Minister of Correctional Services:
On what grounds was parole granted to a certain person (name furnished)
after serving only nine months of his three-year sentence?
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REPLY
The offender was sentenced to five (5) years imprisonment of which two (2)
years was suspended for a period of five (5) years, thus he is serving an
effective sentence of three (3) years imprisonment.
He benefitted eighteen (18) months special remission of sentence in line
with the criteria as announced by the President on 27 April 2012. The
Correctional Supervision and Parole Board approved his placement on parole
after he had served more than half of his remaining sentence of eighteen
(18) months. His placement is in line with Section 73(6)(a) of the
Correctional Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 111 of 1998), which inter alia
provides that an offender may not be placed on parole until such offender
has served either the stipulated non-parole period or half of the sentence.