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With South Africa set to host the 2024 G20 summit, Lamola traveled to Brazil and met Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira for a working visit at the Itamaraty Palace, in the context of the handover of the G20 presidency from Brazil to South Africa. During the meeting of the two Foreign Ministers underscored the significant contribution of the ...
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 ...
The executive branch of the national government of South Africa is divided into the cabinet and the civil service, as in the Westminster system. Public administration, the day-to-day implementation of legislation and policy, is managed by government departments (including state agencies with department status), which are usually headed by permanent civil servants with the title of director ...
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]
In the May 2024 general election, Nkadimeng was elected to a seat in the National Assembly, the lower house of the South African Parliament. [35] On 30 June, President Ramaphosa announced her appointment to his third cabinet as Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, [36] with Andries Nel (a fellow ANC MP) as her deputy. [37]
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 ...
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) is one of the departments of the South African government.It oversees primary and secondary education in South Africa.It was created in 2009 after the election of President Jacob Zuma, when the former Department of Education was divided into the Department of Basic Education and the Department of Higher Education and Training.
In 1934, the Hertzog's National Party and the South African Party merged to form the United Party. [35] Hertzog won the 1938 general election, but in 1939 the United Party was divided between supporters of Hertzog and those of his Justice Minister Jan Smuts because of the question of South Africa's role in the Second World War.