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Annual Report for the 2009/10 Financial Year DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES Annual Report for the 2009/10 Financial Year Department of Correctional Services Annual Report 2009/10 1 VISION • MISSION ANNUAL REPORT 2009/10 Submission of the annual report to the Executive Authority OUR Vision I have the honour of submitting the 2009/2010 Annual Report of the To be one of the best in the world in delivering correctional services with integrity and com- Department of Correctional Services in terms of the Public Finance mitment to excellence. Management Act, 1999. OUR Mission To contribute to maintaining and protecting a just, peaceful and safe society Mr Tom Moyane • by enforcing decisions and sentences of National Commissioner of Correctional Services courts in the manner prescribed in legisla- tion • by detaining all inmates in safe custody while ensuring their human dignity, and • by promoting the rehabilitation, social responsibility and human development of all offenders. 2 Department of Correctional Services Annual Report 2009/10 Department of Correctional Services Annual Report 2009/10 3 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ANNUAL REPORT 2009/10 Management Structure As at 31 May 2010 01 01 Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa- Nqakula, MP Minister of Correctional Table of Contents Services 02 Ms Hlengiwe Mkhize, MP Deputy Minister of Part 1 General Information 6 Correctional Services 02 03 1.1 Foreword by the Minister of Correctional Services 6 03 Mr Tom Moyane 1.2 Foreword by the Deputy Minister of Correctional Services 9 National Commissioner of Correctional Services 1.3 Introduction by the National Commissioner of Correctional Services 11 (Appointed 15 May 2010) 1.4 Information on the Ministry 13 04 Ms Jenny Schreiner 05 1.5. Vision and Mission Statement 17 CDC Operations and 04 1.6. Constitutional, Legislative, Functional and Policy Mandates 17 Management Support (Was also Acting National Commissioner for most of the Part 2 Programme Performance 19 financial year 2009/10) 2.1 Aim of the Vote 19 05 Mr Siphiwe Sokhela 2.2 Overview of Organisational and the Service Delivery Environment for Chief Financial Officer (Appointed 15 May 2010. 06 07 2009/10 20 Ms Nandi Mareka acted in 2.3 Strategic Overview and Key Policy Developments for the 2009/10 this position for most of the financial year 2009/10) Financial Year 23 2.4 Composition of the Offenders 27 06 Mr Teboho Motseki CDC Corrections 2.5 Programme Performance 31 2.5.1 Programme A: Administration 31 07 Ms Subashini Moodley CDC Development and 08 09 2.5.2 Programme B: Security 63 Care 2.5.3 Programme C: Corrections 67 08 Mr Alfred Tsetsane 2.5.4 Programme D: Care 74 CDC Corporate Services 2.5.5 Programme E: Development 81 09 Mr Jack Shilubane 2.5.6 Programme F: Social Reintegration 89 Acting CDC Central 2.5.7 Programme G: Facilities 93 Services 10 11 2.6 Summary of the Service Delivery Improvement Plan 95 10 Ms Nontsikelelo 2.7 Project Portfolio Management Framework 96 Jolingana RC Eastern Cape Part 3 Report of the Audit Committee 110 11 Mr Zacharia Modise 3.1 Report of the Audit Committee 110 RC Free State and Northern Cape 12 13 Part 4 Audited Financial Statements 112 12 Mr James Smallberger 4.1 Report by the Accounting Officer 112 RC Western Cape 4.2 Report of the Auditor-General 129 13 Mr Teboho Motseki 4.3 Accounting Policies 135 Acting RC Gauteng 4.4 Annual Financial Statements 143 14 Mr Mnikelwa Nxele 14 15 RC KwaZulu-Natal Part 5 Human Resource Management 194 15 Ms Lunga Tseana Acting RC Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West 4 Department of Correctional Services Annual Report 2009/10 Department of Correctional Services Annual Report 2009/10 5 PART 1 GENERAL INFORMATION “I have appointed a Ministerial Task Team of independent members to conduct an audit of various categories of inmates.” Part 1: General Information Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on her way to parliament to deliver her budget vote speech. 1.1 Foreword by the Minister of Correctional Services, As we account for the work done during the year in review, we are glad to report a degree Ms N Mapisa-Nqakula, MP of progress and remain confident that this progress has laid the necessary foundations for us to reposition the DCS and its operation in the remaining years of government’s five year The 2009/10 Annual report represents an account of the work done by the department in Medium Term Strategic Framework. the first year of term of the new Executive Authority. Some of the work we report on in this Annual Report may not have been included in the It represents a period during which we sought to align an existing Strategic Plan and Strategic Plan of the department for the year as approved by the previous Parliament, but Budget to meet some of the urgent strategic interventions that were required to stabilise forms part of the key pronouncements and undertakings that we made during the presen- operations and improve services. tation of the Budget Vote last year. Part of this alignment, in specific reference to the budget, was as a result of the pressure We made an undertaking that we shall develop a framework that clearly defines the role put on the department’s finances due to the implementation of the Occupation Specific that the Offenders Labour Force can play in the development of communities. Although Dispensation for correctional officers. the work of developing the framework is taking long due to the protracted process of consultation, we are happy to report that inmates are currently involved in work to help Despite this, we committed ourselves that the year 2009/10, should represent our initial communities with the maintenance of schools, government buildings, school furniture and stage to accelerate and enhance the transformation of the Department of Correctional recreation facilities. Services into an effective and integral component of the rejuvenated Criminal Justice Sys- tem of our country. During the year in review, the department also developed the new guidelines on the im- plementation of the policy on medical parole. Although it has been our intention to start to This transformation of the department should be aimed towards positioning and capaci- implement the policy by beginning of the new financial year, it has however become clear tating the DCS to properly fulfill its mandate as core partner in the fight against crime. In that before this can be done, changes will have to be made to the Correctional Services line with the objectives of the JCPS cluster, the department should not simply serve to Act. incubate inmates behind security fences, but play a meaningful role in ensuring that our people are and feel safe. New members of the National Council on Correctional Services have also been appointed as the term of the previous members expired towards the end of the financial year. The The 2005 White Paper on Corrections remains the basis for our policy and operational new NCCS will finalise such urgent matters as the new amendments to the Correctional planning as it places emphasis on rehabilitation programs aimed at correcting offender Services Act to provide clarity on the policy for medical parole and the future of the incar- behavior and the successful reintegration of offenders back into their communities. ceration framework. 6 Department of Correctional Services Annual Report 2009/10 Department of Correctional Services Annual Report 2009/10 7 PART 1 GENERAL INFORMATION Although there was a general reduction on the levels of overcrowding during the year in review, we remain concerned that these remain at levels too high to allow for effective im- plementation of rehabilitation programmes. As part of our response to the problem of overcrowding, I have appointed a Ministerial Task Team of independent members to conduct an audit of various categories of inmates with a view of determining the status of those inmates regarding their appearance before parole boards, the reclassification of their sentences, application of the bail protocol and the conversion of custodial sentences into correctional supervision. The task team will also audit various categories and status of vulnerable inmates, includ- ing the elderly, inmates with psychiatric problems, children and women. Their report will help us to implement provisions of the law in terms of the early release of inmates based on reliable data. We have continued with the work to establish a Remand Detention Branch in order to create capacity for the management of all matters relating to awaiting trial detainees. We have appointed an inter-departmental task team to investigate the modus operandi and to propose a structure for the new branch. In the meantime, a Video Remand Court system has been established, which means that awaiting trial detainees who have their cases remanded, do not necessarily have to appear physically in court, but can be linked to the court via this video facility. The process of the review of the procurement process for four new facilities started during the year in review and should be finalized during the 2010/2011 financial year. The new 1.2 Foreword by the Deputy Minister of Correctional Services, Prof Deputy Minister Hlengiwe correctional facility in Kimberley was also commissioned during the same period, and this H Mkhize, MP Mkhize connects with one additional bed capacity will be used to further alleviate overcrowding. of the babies in the Eastern Cape’s Female Correctional This annual report marks the first twelve months of the fourth democratic parliament under As part of the implementation of the 2007 resolution on the OSD for the department, the Centre during the launch of the leadership of President Jacob Zuma. It represents an opportunity to report back to the 7-day establishment is now fully operational in all of our centres.
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