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Appendix A: Statistics 2001
Requestee | Carried over | No. of requests | Requests granted | Refusals | Pending or inadequate response | Internal appeals | Court action | Average response time |
Dept. of Defense | 0 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 months |
Dept. of Justice | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 months |
National Archives | 0 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 8 months |
Dept. Environmental Affairs and Tourism | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 days |
Total | 0 | 24 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
Appendix B: Statistics 2002
Requestee | Carried over | No. of requests | Requests granted | Refusals | Pending or inadequate response | Internal appeals | Court action | Average response time |
Dept. of Defense | 2 | 30* | 12 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 months |
Dept. of Justice | 0 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 months |
National Archives | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 8 months | |
Dept. of Agriculture | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 month |
Dept. Environmental Affairs and Tourism | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Dept. of Foreign Affairs | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
National Intelligence Agency | 0 | 3** | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 months |
South African Police Service | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 months |
SA Council for the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
ARMSCOR | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Office of the Auditor General | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Health Professions Council of SA | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 months |
Dept. of Health | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
University of Pretoria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 months |
University of Witwatersrand | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 months |
Iscor | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 month |
Provinces | ||||||||
Limpopo | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
Mpumalanga | 0 | 4 | 4*** | 0 | 0 | 3 months | ||
KwaZulu-Natal | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 month |
Western Cape | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 months |
Total | 11 | 96 | 27 | 40 | 37 | 11 | 4 |
* 2 of these were withdrawn
** 1 request transferred to Dept. of Justice
*** In this case records were received but could not be used for research purposes as they were either not readable or they could not be connected to the request