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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is the agency of the South African Government responsible for state prosecutions. Under Section 179 of the South African Constitution and the National Prosecuting Authority Act of 1998, which established the NPA in 1998, the NPA has the power to institute criminal proceedings on behalf of the state and to carry out any necessary functions incidental to ...
The Court ranks equivalently or at par the Supreme Court of Zambia. The judicial decision of the Constitutional Court of Zambia is final and non-appealable to the Supreme Court. Subject to Article 28, this Court does not hear bill of rights because the 2016 Referendum failed to gainer sufficient votes to amend the Bill of Rights.
In 2005 he was appointed to head up the National Prosecuting Authority as the National Director of Public Prosecutions.. On 24 September 2007 President Thabo Mbeki suspended Pikoli in terms of Section 12(6)(a) of the National Prosecution Act 32 of 1998, citing an "irretrievable break down in the working relationship between the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and the NDPP."
[75] [74] [Notes 1] It also had provisions for registration of a person who reached twenty-one years old and one of their parents was Zambian, [74] for example in the case that a child was born abroad to a father who had not been born in Zambia but was a national, or to a Zambian mother if the child would become stateless. [78]
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development is the justice department of the South African government.The department provides administrative and financial support to the court system and the judiciary (which are constitutionally independent of the executive), oversees the National Prosecuting Authority, provides legal advice and representation to organs of state, and facilitates ...
In 2009, President Jacob Zuma appointed Menzi Simelane as National Director of Public Prosecutions, the head of the National Prosecuting Authority.The Democratic Alliance, South Africa's largest opposition party, objected to the appointment on the grounds that Zuma appeared to have ignored various factors which cast doubt on Simelane's integrity and honesty.
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Sections 12(4) and 12(6) of the National Prosecuting Authority Act, 1998 are therefore unconstitutional insofar as they compromise the independence of the National Directors of Public Prosecution. In addition, Mxolisi Nxasana's departure from the office of National Director in exchange for a golden handshake was unconstitutional. Decision by