CAT/C/ZAF/CO/2 (d) Provide the Department of Home Affairs with adequate human and financial resources to conduct the process of refugee status determination and ensure the training of officials on the physical and psychological effects of torture that may affect victims participating in refugee status determination and refugee appeals board processes; (e) Refrain from detaining asylum seekers and foreign nationals in prolonged detention without a warrant at the Lindela Repatriation Centre, promote alternatives to detention and revise policy in order to bring it into line with the Guidelines on the Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of Asylum-Seekers and Alternatives to Detention; (f) Ensure adequate living conditions, including by reducing overcrowding and providing hygiene, medical and other services, at the Lindela Repatriation Centre, all other immigration centres and police detention facilities; (g) Ensure that refugees, asylum seekers and foreign nationals and migrants have full access to health care; (h) Deliver child protection services to migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children, and provide basic health and social services as well as specialized rehabilitation services to asylum seekers and refugees who have been tortured; (i) Take vigorous measures to eradicate manifestations of racism and xenophobia and prevent xenophobic violence, ensure the prompt investigation, prosecution and punishment of the perpetrators and provide protection and redress to the victims, with adequate remedies; (j) Speed up the adoption of the bill on preventing and combating hate crime and hate speech, which is currently under consideration in Parliament. Redress and rehabilitation 38. While the Committee takes note of the information provided in the replies of the State party to the list of issues that the Prevention and Combating of Torture of Persons Act does not specifically mention compensation, it is concerned that victims of torture, both of torture that occurred in the apartheid era and torture that occurred in the period after the onset of constitutional democracy, may not receive adequate redress, including appropriate compensation and rehabilitation (arts. 2 and 14). 39. The State party should amend the Prevention and Combating of Torture of Persons Act and other relevant legislation, such as the Criminal Procedure Act, in order to operationalize redress for victims of acts of torture that includes the five forms of reparation outlined in general comment No. 3. Corporal punishment of children 40. The Committee is concerned that corporal punishment in the home continues to be legal in the State party as “reasonable or moderate chastisement” by parents (arts. 2 and 16). 41. The State party should enact the children’s third amendment bill as a matter of priority in order to explicitly and clearly prohibit the corporal punishment of children in all settings and should take effective measures to prevent such punishment. It should conduct campaigns to raise awareness among professionals and the general public about the harmful effects of corporal punishment and to promote positive, nonviolent disciplinary methods in education and in bringing up and caring for children. Follow-up procedure 42. The Committee requests the State party to provide, by 17 May 2020, information on follow-up to the Committee’s recommendations on ensuring the prompt investigation and prosecution of all deaths in custody; speeding up the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention; and ensuring that all allegations of torture by law enforcement officials are referred by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate to the National Prosecuting Authority (see paras. 23 11

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