Question NW312 to the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

Reply:

The National Prosecuting Authority has informed me that 5 419 sexual offences cases were finalized with a verdict during 2018/19 financial, i.e. during the period April 2018 – January 2019. Convictions were obtained in 4 034 of these cases, representing a conviction rate of 74.4%.

A break down in respect of each province for the 2017/18 financial year and current 2018/19 financial year (up to the end of January 2019) is provided in the table below:

Sexual Offences (SO) conviction rates per province for the past two (2) financial years

Province	Financial Year		SO Convicted Cases	SO Acquitted Cases	Total SO Finalised	Sum of SO Conviction Rate
Eastern Cape	2017/2018		798	214	1 012	78,9%
	2018/2019		742	192	934	79,4%
Free State	2017/2018		697	238	935	74,5%
	2018/2019		504	161	665	75,8%
Gauteng	2017/2018		725	301	1 026	70,7%
	2018/2019		531	184	715	74,3%
KZN	2017/2018		899	393	1 292	69,6%
	2018/2019		660	262	922	71,6%
Limpopo	2017/2018		298	162	460	64,8%
	2018/2019		232	148	380	61,1%
Mpumalanga	2017/2018		367	123	490	74,9%
	2018/2019		309	72	381	81,1%
North West	2017/2018		327	126	453	72,2%
	2018/2019		263	87	350	75,1%
Northern Cape	2017/2018		171	70	241	71,0%
	2018/2019		181	70	251	72,1%
Western Cape	2017/2018		722	248	970	74,4%
	2018/2019		612	209	821	74,5%

NB: Definition of Sexual Offences

Any case involving offences committed in terms of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 32 of 2007, and may include common law rape or indecent assault. Statistics reported in this response are in terms of this definition.