CGE ANNUAL REPORT

2022/23 ANNUAL REPORT

3.

Provincial Performance Highlights

3.1.

GAUTENG

Limpopo

Gauteng

Mpumalanga

North West

Free State

KwaZulu-Natal

Northern Cape

Khutso Monyepao Gauteng Provincial Manager

Eastern Cape

Western Cape

3.1.1 Legal Work • Gauteng Provincial Office as guided by the CGE’s Complaints Handling and Management Manual has been handling 105 complaints from the beginning of the financial year. • Gender-based violence and femicide sexual offences and workplace sexual harassment cases are the highest complaints received in the province. • Child maintenance complaints from men who are being denied access to their child(ren) are slowly increasing because during outreach, men were informed about the Childrens Act No. 38 of 2005 and their parental rights and obligations thereof. • Delays in DNA results have a negative impact on access to justice for GBVF victims even if there is sufficient evidence to secure conviction, but the DNA results do not corroborate the evidence presented. • The CGE’s Legal Department has recently wrote an opinion piece on the backlog of DNA samples that compromise conviction which was later supported by the Deputy Director of Public Prosecution. • The province played an active role to monitor SAPS police stations to assess the compliance and responses of the personnel in relation to GBVF cases. A report titled “CALL TO ACTION”: United to end GBVF Commission for Gender Equality Biannual SAPS Report” has then being compiled and launched during the financial year. • The provincial office has managed to resolve the complaints and reduced them from the initial 105 to 55 at the end of the financial year.

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