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Legislation empowers the President to establish Investigating Directorates within the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). The offences it may investigate ...

Accountability means “being responsible for your decisions or actions, and explaining them when you are asked”. The NPA is the only entity in South Africa with ...

Submission by Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) to the Constitutional Review Committee | June 2021

In a series of five Issue Papers, Lukas Muntingh and Jean Redpath take a few steps back and ask whether we are indeed problematising the correct issues and, if ...

NPA Issue Paper 1: In search of strategy | by Lukas Muntingh

This paper problematises the strategy environment of the NPA and raises questions about how strategy is developed, the priorities set and how performance is ...

NPA Issue Paper 2: Knowledge, skills and human resources | by Lukas Muntingh

The capacity, knowledge, skills and experience of an organisation's workforce will determine largely the extent to which it is able to fulfil its mandate. The ...

NPA Issue Paper 3: Effectiveness and Efficiency | by Jean Redpath

The question of the effectiveness and efficiency of the NPA is key to the proper functioning of South Africa’s democracy. This is because the NPA is the sole ...

NPA Issue Paper 4: Transparency in high-profile corruption matters | by Jean Redpath

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) tends to follow a highly secretive and confidential approach to all prosecutions, including those in relation to ...

NPA Issue Paper 5: Accountability of the NPA | by Jean Redpath

Public accountability is crucial to demonstrating and achieving independence. Accountability through public transparency can achieve the level of prosecutorial ...

National Prosecuting Authority says there are more resolutions via the alternative dispute resolution mechanism