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Op-ed: Revival of correctional services ministry: A new chapter for SA's prison system
Opinion-editorial by Lukas Muntingh in News24, 8 July 2024
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Op-ed: The 81% matric pass rate of prisoners is nothing to crow about as the number of convicts writing the exam is frightful
The number of prisoners writing matric is so frightfully small that we are left pondering how this is even possible 27 years into democracy. The fewer than 200 ...
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Op-ed: The anomaly in crime stats that results in high murder areas getting fewer police officers | By Jean Redpath
A process has finally commenced within SAPS, which, it is hoped, will see places like Nyanga get at least an average share of policing — rather than a lower ...
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Op-ed: The National Prosecuting Authority is in crisis and is failing in its core business — the prosecution of suspects
The NPA is perhaps one of the most unaccountable institutions of state. While the decision to prosecute is reviewed by a court, the decision not to prosecute ...
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Op-ed: The NPA needs more structural independence and accountability before it can say ‘trust us’ | By Dr J Redpath
It should not be necessary for civil society or political parties to take the National Prosecuting Authority’s decisions on review in court — an expensive, ...
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Op-ed: Time to make a decisive move on the institutional and financial independence of the National Prosecuting Authority | By L Muntingh
The NPA’s reputation has suffered much damage in the past 10 years. There is ample evidence that there exists more than the possibility of interference in its ...
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Op-ed: When the rich buy indemnity, justice is denied
How much discretion does a prosecutor have to decline to prosecute? Is mediation always a good thing? Is there sometimes an obligation to prosecute? Does ...
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Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel and Inhumane Treatment (Research Paper No. 2)
South African ratified the UN Convention Against Torture in December 1998 and played a significant role in the drafting of the Optional Protocol to the ...
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Parliamentary submission on the South Africa's Department of Correctional Services Annual Report 2009/10
This submission was made to South Africa's Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services, in response to DCS tabling its 2009/10 Annual Report. ...
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Parliamentary Submission on the Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill (2008)
This submission discusses the South African Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill 42 of 2008, which aimed at allowing audio-visual link-up with the courts and at ...
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