Question NW620 to the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services

Reply:

The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD), National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Legal Aid South Africa, and Special Investigating Unit (SIU) have reported as follows:

A. Department of Justice and Constitutional Development

(aa) Cleaning

The function of cleaning and gardening is provided and paid for by the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI). The Framework for the Devolution of Budget, Version 17, Clause 6.6 states that:

“DPW provides cleaning services for the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development utilizing internal staff and outsourced services/contracts”.  

The DoJ&CD is considering exercising optionality whereby DPWI is to devolve the function of cleaning and gardening to DoJ&CD. Discussions with DPWI, in respect of transferring cleaning and gardening services to DoJ&CD, are ongoing and a task team has been established to deal with the smooth transfer of the function from DPWI to DoJ&CD. Agreement in principle is that the function will be devolved in a phase out approach. The first phase will be to devolve all the outsourced cleaning and gardening contract to DoJ&CD and the second phase will be to transfer the in-house services. The target date for this devolution is April 2020.

(bb) Security Services

(aaa) R685 239 million in the financial year 2017/18.

(bbb) R718 602 million in the financial year 2018/19.

(b) and (c) The service providers paid by the Department are tabulated below:

 

GUARDING SERVICES
SERVICE PROVIDER	2017/18 AMOUNT PAID (R'000)	2018/19 AMOUNT PAID (R'000)	TOTAL PAID (R'000)
Tyeks Security Services	10 186	10 187	20 373
Mabotwane Security Services	99 208	71 329	170 537
Fidelity Security Services	221 963	225 565	447 528
Mcc Security Services	75 163	108 679	183 843
Jackcliffy Trading	115 770	120 118	235 888
Tshedza Protective Service	43 133	39 719	82 853
Office of the Chief Justice (Upgrading of Private Security for Judges)	0	534	534
Total	565 424	576 131	1 141 555

CASH IN TRANSIT
SERVICE PROVIDER	2017/18 AMOUNT PAID (R'000)	2018/19 AMOUNT PAID (R'000)	TOTAL PAID (R'000)
Fidelity Cash Solutions	22 996	19 558	42 553
Office Of The Chief Justice	542	0	542
Total	23 538	19 558	43 096

MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS EXPENDITURE
SERVICE PROVIDER	2017/18 AMOUNT PAID R'000	2018/19 AMOUNT PAID R'000	TOTAL PAID R'000
Global Technology Systems	94 097	121 177	215 274
Isecure Digital	1 723	1 736	3 459
R And D Screening Technologies	447	0	447
Mutual Safe & Security	5	0	5
Smiles Keycraft	1	0	1
Sysman Public Safety Systems	4	0	4
Total	96 277	122 913	219 190

2017/18 & 2018/19 Total Expenditure for Security Services

685 239

718 602

1 403 840

B. National Prosecuting Authority

a) and (c) The NPA has paid a total amount of R57 674 779.85 to suppliers during the 2017/18 and 2018/19 financial years in respect of cleaning, security and gardening services. This amount is divided into the various services as follows:

2017/18

• Cleaning - R7 852 550.63
• Security - R17 687 208.14
• Gardening - R944 387.44

2018/19

• Cleaning - R10 354 139.25
• Security - R19 870 152.47
• Gardening - R966 341.92

b) Please see the attached spreadsheet, attached as Annexure A which provides details of the amount paid to each supplier.

C. Special Investigation Unit

a) The SIU has spent as follows:

No.	Description	2017/18	2018/19
(aa)	Cleaning Services	R1 502 063.18	R1 414 797.04
(bb)	Security Services	R320 888.45	R547 076.24
(cc)	Gardening Services	None, as it is included on the operating costs that are paid to landlords for office accommodation.

b) The amount paid to each service provider is tabulated on the link below:

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW620_TableB.pdf

c) Thelink below provides the total amount paid to each of the service providers:

http://pmg-assets.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/RNW620_TableC.pdf

D. Legal Aid South Africa

a) and (c) Legal Aid South Africa spent as follows during the 2017/18 and 2018/19 financial years:

Total amounts paid to each of the service providers:
No.	Description	2017/18	2018/19
(aa)	Cleaning Services	R7 651 319	R8 459 042
(bb)	Security Services	R2 198 512	R2 342 609
(cc)	Gardening Services	No costs were incurred for gardening services.

b) The lists of service providers for cleaning and security services is attached as Annexures B and C respectively.

E. The Office of the Chief Justice

The office of the Chief Justice (OCJ) does not contract cleaning, security and gardening services directly at any of its services centres.

The Office of the Chief Justice uses cleaning services that are under the custodianship of the National Department of Public Works (DPW) and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD).