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  • Questions asked to the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

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    Engelbrecht, Mr J question
    (a) What total number of inmates are serving life sentences in each (i) month, (ii) year and (iii) province since 01 January 2007 and (b) whether the specified inmates are serving life sentences for committing sex crimes against minors or not?
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    (a)(i) Provision of the data per month is not possible due to the complexity and data limitations of the daily offender movements, wherein according to procedures an offender is temporarily released from the system for various purposes (their status changes to inactive) and when they come back they are readmitted (status changes to active in the movement data on the system).

    This is part of the daily correctional centre operations. Such movements may include among others transfers from one centre to the other, movement to courts, hospital and others.

    (a)(ii) & (iii) See table below.

    (c) Due to limitation of victim information on the warrant, the ages of victims are not available, therefore only the absolute count of those lifers charged with sexual crimes are included

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    (a)(ii)&(iii) Per year and and per province:

    (a)(iii) PROVINCE

    (a)(ii) YEAR

     

    2007

    2008

    2009

    2010

    2011

    2012

    2013

    2014

    2015

    2016

    2017

    2018

    2019

    2020

    2021

    2022

    2023

    EASTERN CAPE

    924

    1 013

    1 072

    1 118

    1 193

    1 304

    1 419

    1 518

    1 661

    1 844

    1 995

    2 119

    2 211

    2 262

    2 390

    2 489

    2 490

    FREE STATE

    598

    645

    720

    825

    945

    1 092

    1 278

    1 403

    1 525

    1 656

    1 820

    1 954

    2 068

    2 119

    2128

    2 125

    2 121

    GAUTENG

    1 720

    1 913

    2 073

    2 190

    2 352

    2 494

    2 624

    2 757

    2 915

    3 091

    3 228

    3 383

    3 527

    3 572

    3668

    3 809

    3 818

    KWAZULU-NATAL

    1 976

    2182

    2 369

    2 512

    2 731

    2 975

    3 168

    3 345

    3 480

    3 638

    3 829

    3 989

    4 078

    4 072

    4173

    4 266

    4 249

    LIMPOPO

    344

    380

    457

    570

    745

    928

    1 117

    1 275

    1 410

    1 545

    1 710

    1 885

    2 085

    2 201

    2350

    2 472

    2 484

    MPUMALANGA

    286

    330

    350

    371

    388

    406

    442

    471

    490

    522

    554

    589

    604

    614

    634

    649

    654

    NORTH WEST

    511

    545

    580

    611

    646

    665

    682

    704

    742

    782

    816

    821

    843

    847

    854

    870

    861

    NORTHERN CAPE

    80

    86

    90

    94

    97

    96

    97

    96

    96

    96

    96

    96

    94

    95

    102

    109

    108

    WESTERN CAPE

    570

    623

    655

    698

    741

    785

    817

    865

    906

    950

    1002

    1 068

    1111

    1 145

    1 174

    1 221

    1 219

    GRAND TOTAL

    7 009

    7 717

    8 366

    8 989

    9 838

    10 745

    11 644

    12 434

    13 225

    14 124

    15 050

    15 904

    16 621

    16 927

    17 473

    18 010

    18 004

    *Data Source: DCS Data Base

    END

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