Chair, we have, since we commenced with the current administration, identified a number of weaknesses in the programmes of the department.
Therefore we have been in intense engagement with the management of the department to identify those weaknesses, especially in the area of rehabilitation, skills development and community reintegration. This is because we believe that those are the priority areas where the impact of our intervention and our new policy thrust can find expression, the policy thrust being that the focus is no longer to run prisons, but to run correctional facilities and correctional services in order to correct past criminal behaviour and to skill offenders so that they can be reintegrated and engaged in constructive conduct and activity after they have served their term in our correctional facilities. Thank you.