Community Safety
Whether the matter relating to allegations about apartheid-era Ministers and Bird Island in the Eastern Cape is being investigated by Western Cape SAPS; if so, (a) by whom have they been tasked, (b) what is their mandate, (c) who is the senior investigating officer, (d) how many officers by rank have been allocated to this investigation, (e) how many times have they gone to (i) Port Elizabeth and (ii) other sites outside the Western Cape and (f) what is the cost to date of this investigation?
MINISTER OF COMMUNITY SAFETY TO REPLY
1. The South African Police Service informed me as follows:
(1)(a) Yes. The Deputy Provincial Commissioner Crime Detection, Major General JA Vearey
(b) To investigate reported allegations.
(c) The Provincial Head: FCS Unit (Family Child and Sexual Offences), Brigadier Harri
(d) 3 Officers
(e)(i) Investigations are ongoing
(ii) Investigations are ongoing
(f) Investigations are ongoing
