CGE ANNUAL REPORT

2022/23 ANNUAL REPORT

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NORTHERN CAPE

Limpopo

Gauteng

Mpumalanga

North West

Free State

KwaZulu-Natal

Northern Cape

Thembelihle Bongwana Northern Cape Provincial Manager

Eastern Cape

Western Cape

• The Northern Cape office made continuous contribution in the 2022/23 financial year through various APP activities. The summary are inputs and contributions made holistically by the team thereby including admin staff, legal, public education, and PM’s contributions of the NC team. • CGE received recognition award for empowerment programmes in the Northern Cape. The CGE was recognised for its collaborative work and stakeholder engagement initiatives including its awareness campaigns in the Northern Cape. The MEC, Social Development in the Northern Cape, Ntokozo Vilakazi awarded a certificate of excellence to the CGE’s Education Officer. • The newly deployed Commissioner of the Northern Cape attended and gave an address at the Dept of Social Development’s awards Ceremony where the CGE NC officials jointly received their certificate of recognition from the MEC: Social Development. • The NC appeared and made contributions on several print media communications this financial year, including several newsletter publications and a Women’s Month article on the Sunday Times. • The NC also made an appearance on the SABC news channel 404 on DSTV for a Men’s Dialogue facilitated by the Department of Public Works where the PM made a presentation and was panellist. • The Northern Cape legal department identified a project which it intends to pilot for future utilisation by other provinces or at the national level. The project entails a critical investigation of the criminal justice system in respect case flow from reporting at the South African Police Service, investigations, DPP decisions, withdrawals, prosecutions, court processes and finalisation. The project will analyse the case load, duration and capacity of officials handling the matters, particularly GBV. The legal officer engaged the Head of Legal Department, the Provincial Manager, Prosecutors and Police officials regarding the intended project and its planning. The legal department resolved that conceptualisation and the operationalising of the project should be initiated from April 2023.

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