The Honourable Member will remember that the Judiciary submitted their report entitled “Capacitating the Office of the Chief Justice and Laying the Foundations for Judicial Independence: the next Frontier in our Constitutional Democracy, Judicial Independence” outlining their preferred court administration model to the Executive in 2013. Subsequent to the submission, Cabinet established an Inter-Ministerial Task team in 2017, tasked with preparing a ...
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development receives its funding from National Treasury, through a budgetary appropriation process which get voted by Parliament. For the past three financial years (2021/2022, 2022/23 and 2023/24), the NPA received a budget allocation of R4.446 billion, R4.910 billion and R5.407 billion respectively. The above-mentioned allocation includes additional budget amounting to R200 million and R690 million which NPA received ...
More »Note: The Hon member referred to newly functional correctional facilities, without stipulating or providing an explanation regarding the criteria or classification of the term “newly functional”. This response provides a holistic numerical overview related to all correctional facilities.
a) The total number of functional correctional facilities are as follows:
b) The total number of correctional facilities under ...
The Master’s Offices deals with not only deceased estates, but also bankruptcy matters, registration of trusts, curatorships as well as the Guardian’s Fund.
The Masters have been experiencing challenges with regards to appointment in deceased estates and trusts, as well as payment of Guardian’s Fund claims.
The Master’s Offices are not dysfunctional and though some offices are struggling more than others.
The challenges experienced ...
The East London Female Correctional Centre has a total 297 offenders incarcerated and 55 offenders are classified as maximum.
(I) The Standard Operating Procedure (Chapter 02 of the B-Order) stipulates that sanitary towels must be issued as required. DCS ensures that sanitary products are issued as required, minimum one packet of 20 or 12 per female inmate and thereafter, when it is required/as per ...
1. The disciplinary hearing against the three DCS Senior Managers, who were charged in the same hearing, have been finalised and awaiting the findings by the chairperson (Senior Counsel) appointed by the state attorney. The chairperson in a procedural notice indicated that the findings would be provided by latest mid-November 2023.
2. It should be noted that the officials who are of the Senior ...
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has a functional interdepartmental partnerships with various Departments to ensure the fulfilment of its objects and mandate.
The DCS has an existing partnership with Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI), the partnership commenced on 10 March 2021 and it will end on 09 March 2024. The aim of the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) is to guide and ...
The total number of cell phones that were confiscated from 01 April 2023 to 31 October 2023 is as follows:
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Regions |
Total Number of Cell phones confiscated as reported by Regions |
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KwaZulu-Natal |
4 433 |
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Eastern Cape |
3 228 |
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Western Cape |
2 780 |
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Free State & Northern Cape |
1 972 |
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Limpopo, Mpumalanga & North West |
3 139 |
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Gauteng |
5 381 |
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National Total |
20 933 |
The ...
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) does not record cases rejected due to ‘inadequate investigation”. Where the SA Police Service submit case dockets to the NPA for decision where the investigations are “inadequate” the NPA provides the Police with directions for further investigation and the case dockets are returned to the Police.
In the lower courts, all Police case dockets presented to prosecutors for decision ...