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Justice and Correctional Services
Department of Justice and Constitutional Development 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan; with Minister and Deputy Ministers
18 Apr 2018
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development presented its 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan (APP) to the Committee, accompanied by the Minister and Deputy Minister. Minister Masutha updated the Committee on the challenges faced by the Department where overcrowding of prisons and resource constraints were pointedly raised. The Committee was also ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Public Protector on its 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
17 Apr 2018
The Public Protector, Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane, in presenting the Public Protector South Africa (PPSA) Annual Performance Plan, focused primarily on the severe financial and capacity constraints of the institution and a request for additional funding. Staff were suffering from low morale due to an increasingly large workload. Approximately R250 million ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Traditional Courts Bill: public hearings day 3
20 Mar 2018
The Committee continued with public hearings on the Traditional Courts Bill.
The Chairperson informed the public that Portfolio Committee departed from the premise that it was dealing with traditional courts that had been working since time immemorial and that it wanted to hear from all of the participants in order ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Section 25 review: proposed programme for public hearings
20 Mar 2018
The Joint Committee on Constitutional Review was given a mandate by the National Assembly and the National Provincial Council of Provinces to review of Section 25 of the Constitution, and other clauses where necessary, to make it possible for the state to expropriate land in the public interest without compensation. ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Traditional Courts Bill: public hearings day 2
14 Mar 2018
The Bill was in its second day of public hearings where submissions were welcomed from the Land and Accountability Research Centre, Centre for Child Law & Children’s Institute, the Royal Bafokeng Administration, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Land Access Movement of South Africa. Presenters highlighted positive ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Traditional Courts Bill: public hearings day 1
13 Mar 2018
Relevant Document:
Traditional Courts Bill presentation – Department of Justice and Constitutional Development
The Chairperson of the Portfolio announced that the first day of the public hearings on the Traditional Courts Bill would be a short day as the intention was to draw back the curtains and to get some ...
Police
NPA progress on prosecution of State Capture cases
7 Mar 2018
The joint meeting between the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services and the Portfolio Committee on Police was called because the previous week Lt Gen Yoliswa Matakata, Acting Head, Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation had informed the Police Portfolio Committee that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was hindering progress in ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Public Protector on serious matters of public interest affecting her Office
6 Mar 2018
The Committee requested the Public Protector to comment on two specific matters of public interest: her report into the Vrede Dairy farm in Free State; the adverse findings against her in two separate court judgments in the Gauteng High Court, which set aside aspects of her remedial action in the ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill: proposed amendments
28 Feb 2018
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development explained the rationale for the proposed amendments to the Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill which were based on public and stakeholder submissions. The changes to definitions that appeared in Bill such as computer, cyber-attack, access and what constituted a cybercrime investigator were covered.
The ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
Department of Basic Education irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure; infrastructure; scholar transport: hearing; with Minister
27 Feb 2018
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts met to review the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, infrastructure issues and scholar transport involving the Department of Basic Education (DBE), with the objective of ensuring that officials of the Department followed due process in all of its projects, and that they were held ...