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and would be routed
back to the fight
against crime and
corruption
Review Protected
Disclosure Act
Continuous The level of
improvement in the
implementation of
Disclosure
requirement by senior
management in the
public service has
improved.
Objective 7: Promotion and protection of the rights of women
Violence and
crime in
particular against
women and
children
Identify and
strengthen
anticrime and
violence
strategies
currently
underway in all
three spheres of
government
Continuous Increase in conviction
rates of cases on
violence against
women and children
In relation to genderbased violence, South
Africa has reestablished the Family
Violence Child
Protection and Sexual
Offences Units within
the police force since
2010. Nationally there
are 176 established
Family Violence Child
Protection and Sexual
Offences Units
attached to all police
clusters in the South
African Police Service
(SAPS)
Approval of the
Women
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Since the reestablishment of
Family Violence
Child Protection and
Sexual Offences
unit, there has been
a marked increase in
conviction rates for
offences related to
gender based
violence and child
abuse, resulting in a
combined 36 225
years of general
imprisonments; 695
of which have been
life imprisonments