Community Safety
With regard to the killing of members of the LGBQTI community:
(a) What is the number of persons that have been murdered in the province in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015, (iii) 2016, (iv) 2017, (v) 2018, (vi) 2019, (vii) 2020 and (viii) 2021 to date and (b) what are the details of the provincial government’s programmes to prevent these senseless killings?
The South African Police Services informed me as follows:
(a) (i) 3
(ii) 0
(iii) 1
(iv) 1
(v) 2
(vi) 2
(vii) 4
(viii) The figure for January 2021 to date may not be provided as the statistics have not as yet been released by the Minister of Police.
The information is not available on our SAPS systems and has been manually sourced.
MINISTER OF COMMUNITY SAFETY:
(b) The Department advises that the question be posed to the Department of Social Development who leads the Steering Committee on Gender Based Violence in the Province.
