NGCOBO J the specific provisions of the CPA. These findings are the most disturbing. Only 14% of the approximately 450 Regional Courts nationwide are equipped with the necessary facilities to permit the use of intermediaries. Even for those courts with these facilities, a high percentage have continuing problems with broken or malfunctioning equipment. For example, the respondents from Lehurutshe, in the North-West province indicated that the equipment had never worked in their courts. A very low percentage of courts were equipped with one-way mirrors, and only slightly higher percentages of courts were reported to have separate waiting rooms in each province. Training of intermediaries [196] Almost half of the officials who responded to the DPP’s surveys indicated their strong concerns over the current intermediaries. The issues they raised included language barriers that led the intermediary to fail to adequately convey what the child was stating; intermediaries’ unfamiliarity with court procedures, leading them to act merely as interpreters or fail to perform their function of making the child more comfortable with the form and tone of the questioning; the difficulty expressed by prosecutors in obtaining intermediaries even on request; and the reliance by courts or prosecutors on interpreters over intermediaries merely because it involved a simpler process, despite almost 50% of the respondents indicating that interpreters had not been adequately sensitised to the needs of child witnesses. Training of prosecutors 98