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The political head of the department is the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, who is supported by a Deputy Minister of Correctional Services. [3] As of June 2024 the minister is Pieter Groenewald [4] and the deputy minister is Lindiwe Ntshalintshali. In the 2020 budget, R26,800.0 million was appropriated for the department. In the ...
The Expropriation Act, 2024 (Act No. 13 of 2024) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa that establishes the framework for compulsory property acquisition by South African government entities. The Act envisages the repeal of the apartheid-era Expropriation Act, 1975 and will come into operation on a date determined by the President by ...
Disaster Management Tax Relief Administration Act, 2020: 15: Prescription in Civil and Criminal Matters (Sexual Offences) Amendment Act, 2020: 16: Social Assistance Amendment Act, 2020: 17: Airports Company Amendment Act, 2020: 18: Air Traffic and Navigation Services Company Amendment Act, 2020: 19: Cybercrimes Act, 2020: 20: Division of ...
South Africa, 1998. Correctional Services Act 111 of 1998. Chris Giffard, and Lukas Muntingh. "The Effect of Sentencing on the Size of the South African Prison Population." Open Society Foundation for South Africa, October 2006, 87. Gopolang Makou, Ina Skosana, and Ruth Hopkins. "FACTSHEET: The State of South Africa's Prisons.”
According to SAPS and SSA statistics, the rate of increase in violent crimes committed in South Africa (2016-2020) was slowing down, [107] but up to 2019/20, the incidence of this crime category was usually growing year on year. [108] In April 2022, Numbeo found that 5 of the top 20 most dangerous cities in the world were in South Africa. [109]
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial body of the United Nations, held public hearings earlier this month in the case South Africa brought against Israel at the end of 2023.
South African criminal law is the body of national law relating to crime in South Africa.In the definition of Van der Walt et al., a crime is "conduct which common or statute law prohibits and expressly or impliedly subjects to punishment remissible by the state alone and which the offender cannot avoid by his own act once he has been convicted."
New FBI report points to complex reality: 2020 brought pandemic, stress, economic insecurity. Don't let reform opponents pan good justice policies.