FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald not impressed with assurances the crisis was being addressed
The DNA cases were outstanding for a period of between 36 and 1 201 days, Cele said.
Groenewald was not impressed with assurances by government and police services that the DNA tests crisis was being addressed. “On the 11th of May, the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, said that the number stood at 208 291 and according to the most recent reply that the FF Plus received from the Minister, the backlog has grown to 237 631. Some cases have been dragging on for more than three years due to outstanding test results.
“What makes matters even worse is that President Cyril Ramaphosa, Minister Cele and General Khehla Sitole, national Police Commissioner, have all admitted on more than one occasion that this is indeed a crisis and they also undertook to immediately address the problem,” Gorenewald said. He added that the system was failing women in particular as they were mostly the victims of gender-based violence.
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