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PART 2. INFORMATION ON PREDETERMINED OBJECTIVES<br />

In the 2011/12 financial year the variance between spending plans and actual expenditure amounted to R410,124 million,<br />

resulting in 2.5% under spending. The Department had unauthorised expenditure amounting to R483,821 million<br />

incurred in the 2008/09 financial year. Parliament approved that the Unauthorised Expenditure be funded through<br />

savings from the Department’s budget and the Department has processed the R483,821 million against the 2011/12<br />

under expenditure.<br />

2.1.2 Aim <strong>of</strong> the vote<br />

The aim <strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Correctional Services is to contribute to maintaining and protecting a just, peaceful<br />

and safe society, by enforcing court-imposed sentences, detaining inmates in safe custody whilst maintaining their<br />

human dignity, developing the sense <strong>of</strong> social responsibility <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fenders, and promoting the general development <strong>of</strong><br />

all <strong>of</strong>fenders and persons subject to community corrections.<br />

2.1.3 Strategic Outcome Oriented Goals<br />

The Department is committed to delivery on three core functions, which are directed towards delivery <strong>of</strong> the following<br />

strategic outcome oriented goals, and which are achieved <strong>of</strong> implementation through the relevant goal statement:<br />

Core Function To contribute to enhanced public safety through effective management <strong>of</strong> remand<br />

detention<br />

Strategic Outcome There is effective criminal justice through the effective management <strong>of</strong> remand processes<br />

Oriented Goal 1<br />

Goal Statement Establish effective management <strong>of</strong> remand processes by ensuring that remand<br />

detainees are held in secure, safe and humane conditions, have conditions conducive for<br />

participation in court processes, that their social and family needs are supported and that<br />

they are healthy<br />

Core Function To contribute to reduced re-<strong>of</strong>fending through <strong>of</strong>fender management and rehabilitation<br />

interventions<br />

Strategic Outcome Society is protected through incarcerated <strong>of</strong>fenders being secure and rehabilitated<br />

Oriented Goal 2<br />

Goal Statement To provide services and interventions that will contribute to the safety and rehabilitation<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fenders by ensuring that <strong>of</strong>fenders are held in secure, safe and humane conditions,<br />

correctional sentence plans are managed, <strong>of</strong>fending behavior is corrected, <strong>of</strong>fender<br />

literacy, education, skills competency is improved and that <strong>of</strong>fenders are healthy<br />

Core Function To contribute to social reintegration <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fenders through management <strong>of</strong> noncustodial<br />

sentences and parole<br />

Strategic Outcome<br />

Oriented Goal 3<br />

Society is protected by <strong>of</strong>fenders being reintegrated into the community as law abiding<br />

citizens<br />

Goal Statement To provide services and interventions that will contribute to the reintegration <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fenders<br />

as law-abiding citizens into communities by ensuring that probationers are rehabilitated,<br />

monitored and accepted by communities; <strong>of</strong>fenders under community correctional<br />

supervision are rehabilitated, monitored and accepted by communities; and parolees are<br />

rehabilitated, monitored and accepted back by communities<br />

Since 2006/7, the Department has been increasingly moving to results based management. In the 2011/12 financial<br />

year, the Department reviewed the Logic Model which had been developed in 2006/7 and approved the following refined<br />

logic model that maps the outcomes that the Department contributes towards achieving the impact that people<br />

in South Africa are and feel safe.<br />

ANNUAL REPORT 2011/12 19

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