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Justice and Correctional Services
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: deliberations; with Deputy Minister
8 Nov 2022
The Portfolio Committee met on a virtual platform with the Department of Justice and Correctional Services to continue its deliberations on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill.
Two Members of the Committee made submissions on the draft bill. The first drew on various past ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Deliberations on Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill; with Deputy Minister
4 Nov 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services continued deliberations on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill. A sticking point in the meeting was the categories against which hate can ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: Department comparative research briefing; with Deputy Minister
26 Oct 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Department of Justice and Correctional Services presented its research note in response to the Portfolio Committee Chairperson’s question about hate crime legislation in other jurisdictions.
Members asked the Department whether pursuing a criminal law route would be more effective in deterring such crimes, as ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Department of Justice and Constitutional Development Annual Report 2021/22, with Deputy Minister
14 Oct 2022
Justice and Constitutional Development
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on its 2021/22 annual report.
Members heard that significant progress had been made on the re-organisation and re-design of the Department. The Minister for Public Service and Administration had finally concurred with the proposed ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Political Overview of Annual Reports; JICS & DCS Annual Report 2021/22, with Minister & Deputy Ministers
13 Oct 2022
The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services presented a political overview of the Departments and entities falling under the broader justice and correctional services umbrella
In addition, the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services and the Department of Correctional Services presented their 2021/22 annual reports.
Minister Lamola ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
GBVF case backlog & victim support: progress report by Police & Justice Ministries
22 Sep 2022
In a virtual meeting, the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD ) gave a progress report on the stablishment of sexual offences courts, eliminating Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) case backlogs, and interventions to address areas of dysfunction to ensure successful prosecutions ...
NCOP Security and Justice
UN International Conventions on Apartheid and Enforced Disappearance: Department briefing; with Deputy Minister
21 Sep 2022
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance
In a virtual meeting, the Committee was briefed by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on the accession to the International Convention ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill: adoption; Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: Department response to submissions; with Deputy Minister
21 Sep 2022
The Committee considered and adopted the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill in this virtual meeting and the accompanying report.
The purpose of the Bill is to amend the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act, 1992, to repeal the Minister’s delegated plenary legislative powers to amend Schedules. The effect thereof ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Land Court Bill: deliberations; with Deputy Minister
13 Sep 2022
The Portfolio Committee Justice and Correctional Services met to deliberate on the Land Court Bill.
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development presented a working document that was amended in light of the Portfolio Committee discussions that took place the previous week. The Department had inserted the new amendments ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: exclusion of public input from summary of submissions, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2022
The Committee was originally supposed to meet so that the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development could share its response to the submissions on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill. However, they were informed that several submissions were excluded from the summary that was ...