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The minister was called the minister of justice until 1999, when constitutional matters were added to his portfolio. Between May 2014 and June 2024, the Department of Correctional Services was subsumed under the ministry, which was led by the minister of justice and correctional services .
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 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]
John Harold Jeffery (born 31 October 1963) has been the Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development in South Africa since 2013. [1] He was appointed by President Jacob Zuma in a cabinet reshuffle on 9 July 2013, [2] [3] [4] and has remained in the post throughout the tenure of current President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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 ...
Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla (born 23 November 1948) is a South African politician, lawyer and former anti-apartheid activist who served in the cabinet of South Africa from 2003 to 2009, including as the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development from 2004 to 2008. She became the South African Ambassador to Sweden in January 2020.
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 ...