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This article identifies the historical reform patterns of the South African prison system, focusing on specific actors, social movements, and underlying socio-political factors that precipitated reform before the apartheid struggle and after 1994, transitioning into the current reform challenges facing the South African prison system.
In addition to overseeing the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, the committee oversees a long list of statutory entities related to justice and law enforcement: the Council for Debt Collectors, Legal Aid South Africa, the National Prosecuting Authority, the Office of the Chief Justice, the Public Protector, the Rules Board ...
In the 20th century, the South African justice minister was called the minister of justice. His purview included prisons until late 1990, when President F. W. de Klerk announced extensive prison reforms and established a separate Ministry of Prisons. [2]
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Announcing his second cabinet in May 2014, President Jacob Zuma merged the correctional services portfolio with the justice portfolio, creating the minister of justice and correctional services. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On 30 June 2024, the merger was reversed when President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed a separate minister of correctional services, Pieter ...
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development v Prince [1] is a decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered on 18 September 2018, which found that it is unconstitutional for the state to criminalize the possession, use or cultivation of cannabis by adults for personal consumption in private.
April 19, 2024 at 10:00 AM. In 2019, New York passed legislation curtailing cash bail for nonviolent defendants, hailed as a measure to stop the poor from being jailed before trial simply because ...
It is providing a way to make sure there is long term change in the criminal justice system, particularly in poor and working class areas. The National Minister of Police tried to stop the commission in 2012 and 2013, but he lost in both the Western Cape High Court and then in the South African Constitutional Court.