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Basic Education
SACE & Umalusi 2025/26 Annual Performance Plans
24 Apr 2025
SA Council of Educators - Strategic Plan
Report of the meeting to follow.
Correctional Services
CGE report on Gender Mainstreaming and Transformation within Correctional Services
1 Apr 2025
The Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services convened to receive a report from the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) on the state of gender transformation, healthcare, and human rights compliance within South Africa’s correctional facilities. The meeting highlighted several systemic challenges, including the inhumane treatment of female inmates, overcrowding, and institutional ...
Correctional Services
Revocation of parole by the Minister: Parliamentary Legal Advisor briefing
18 Mar 2025
The Committee discussed the Minister of Correctional Services’ decision to revoke the parole of
Theunis Kruger and Frans Adriaan du Toit, who were granted parole in July 2023. The two men were sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack and rape of Ms Alison Botha. The victim was unaware that ...
Correctional Services
Correctional Services learnership programme; with Deputy Minister
11 Mar 2025
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) provided a briefing on its learnership programme. Learners who complete the learnership programme will be eligible for consideration for permanent employment as correctional officers. Although recruitment started in 2023, DCS acknowledged that the first group is only set to begin on 1 April 2025, ...
Correctional Services
Contraband in correctional centres & prevention measures; with Deputy Minister
18 Feb 2025
The Department of Correctional Services provided a briefing on contraband smuggling within correctional facilities, highlighting ongoing security challenges and enforcement measures. The Deputy Minister attended the meeting, and provided closing remarks.
Key issues raised by Members included:
Contraband smuggling and internal corruption
Concerns were raised about the high volume ...
Correctional Services
DCS infrastructure projects; Incarceration of foreign nationals, with Minister and Deputy Minister
4 Feb 2025
The Portfolio Committee met with the Department of Correctional Services to receive a status update on its infrastructure projects. The incarceration of foreign nationals and the number of bed spaces available in correctional centres were also discussed.
Members asked how the Department planned to deal with the backlog of ...
Correctional Services
DCS readiness to take over PPP facilities; Mangaung litigation; with Deputy Minister
26 Nov 2024
The Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services met with the Department of Correctional Services to discuss the transition of management of correctional facilities from private operators to the Department. The Committee was informed that the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein, Free State, had been in operation since 1 July 2001 under ...
Correctional Services
DCS Audit Outcome & 2023/24 Annual Report; DCS Audit Action Plan; with Ministry
19 Nov 2024
The Portfolio Committee met to review the Department of Correctional Services’ (DCS) 2023/24 audit outcomes and progress on addressing systemic challenges. The meeting highlighted the DCS’s unqualified audit opinion with findings.
Minister of Correctional Services, Dr Pieter Groenewald, noted that the Department received an unqualified audit opinion with no material ...
Joint Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Election of Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson
30 Oct 2024
The first meeting of the Multiparty Women’s Caucus (MWC) was called to elect the Chairperson and deputy chairperson of the Caucus. The Caucus Secretary presided over the election of the Chairperson. According to the Joint Rules, the Chairperson must be from the largest party in Parliament, while the Deputy ...
Correctional Services
Public Protector report on Thabo Bester escape from Mangaung Correction Centre
29 Oct 2024
The Parliamentary Legal Advisor provided the Portfolio Committee with a legal opinion on how to process the report of the Public Protector (PP) on the escape of Thabo Bester from Mangaung Correctional Centre, in line with the Committee's mandate. Members were told that the Constitutional and Legal Services Office ...