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Justice and Correctional Services
Deputy Public Protector vacancy & removal of Adv Jiba and Adv Mrwebi from office: finalisation & committee reports
27 Nov 2019
Justice and Correctional Services Resolves That Jiba and Mrwebi Should Not Be Restored to Office
The Committee considered the two draft reports.
The Draft Report of the Consideration of Draft Committee Report on Removal of advocate Nomgcobo Jiba and Advocate Lawrence Sithembiso from their Positions in the National Prosecuting Authority ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Deputy Public Protector vacancy & removal of Adv Jiba and Adv Mrwebi from office: deliberations
26 Nov 2019
Relevant Document: NPA Act 30 of 1998
President's letter to Advocate Mrwebi
Relevant Document: Advocate Mrwebi submissions on report
Relevant Document: President's letter to Advocate Jiba
Relevant Document: Annexure A - Advocate Jiba submissions
Relevant Document: Advocate Jiba submissions on the report
Relevant Document: Mokgoro Enquiry Report
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide, with Minister (postponed)
19 Nov 2019
The joint meeting involving various concerned Portfolio and Select Committees from the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), met with the interim steering committee on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) to discuss the progress made with the development of a draft national strategic plan on GBVF, as ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Department of Correctional Services 2018/19 Annual Report, with Deputy Minister
22 Oct 2019
The Department of Correctional Services briefed the Portfolio Committee on its 2018/19 Annual Report. The Deputy Minister of Correctional Services accompanied the Department and offered apologies for the Minister who was with the Department of Justice that day.
The Department informed the Committee that the total ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Promotion of Access to Information Amendment Bill: public hearings day 1
17 Sep 2019
Political Party Funding Act
Political Party Funding Act Draft Regulations
Regulations for Political Party Funding Act: IEC Public Hearings Day 1
Regulations for Political Party Funding Act: IEC Public Hearings Day 2
My Vote Counts NPC v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Another (CCT249/17) [2018] ZACC 17; 2018 ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Department of Correctional Services Quarterly Report
10 Sep 2019
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) reported that it had achieved 25 of its 28 targets during the first quarter of the 2019/20 financial year, which was a slight improvement on its performance during the same period last year. However, there had been R735 million under-spending against its planned expenditure. ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Security and overcrowding in correctional facilities: briefing; Assessing health & welfare services for female offenders: CGE briefing; with Deputy Minister
4 Sep 2019
The Committee was told by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) that overcrowding posed a serious threat in correctional facilities, where the most common concerns were the safety of inmates and officials, insufficient bed spaces, corruption within correctional facilities, and the prevalence of escapes.
Overcrowding negatively impacted the imperatives of ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services on Business Case and Operating Model
3 Sep 2019
News24: St Albans Prison official stabbed in neck, inmate killed: Popcru lambastes correctional services
UN Mandela Rules
The Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (JICS) presented its ‘business case’ and operating model. The presentation also highlighted the Inspectorate’s inspection and investigative capacities, as well as those areas which the business case ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Promotion of Access to Information Amendment Bill: briefing; DPP Appointment Process; Suspension of magistrates
28 Aug 2019
My Vote Counts NPC v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Another (CCT249/17) [2018] ZACC 17; 2018 (8) BCLR 893 (CC); 2018 (5) SA 380 (CC) (21 June 2018)
Promotion of Access to Information Act
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services adopted the ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Deputy Public Protector Appointment Process; Removal from office of Public Protector & Sub-Committee on Correctional Services
27 Aug 2019
VIDEO: Justice and Correctional Services Committee meet on Public Protector removal
The Chairperson informed the Committee that the parliamentary Programming Committee met the previous week and agreed that Rules be developed for processes relating to appointment of persons to positions in Chapter Nine institutions in terms of section 194(1) of ...