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A lecturer has expressed his disappointment that there were only seven ministers under the age of 45 in the recently announced Cabinet.
The seventh administration fashion parade had more worst dressed, compared to those who actually put in an effort and respect for the fashion gods.
It has called for the separation of the Department of Justice and Correctional Services into two separate ministries to create better focus and urgency in the two separate areas.
Police in Gauteng are on the hunt for suspects after two siblings were killed in a shooting in Soshanguve. The children were aged seven and four-years-old.
In his rant about being treated like the worst inmate in South Africa, Bester told the magistrate that he didn’t like the fact that he could not wear his preferred clothes.
In a tragic sequence of events in Soshanguve, more young lives have been lost to senseless violence.
1 407 inmates voted at correctional centres and the process went smoothly with no significant incidents reported at any of the centres.
Department of Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola has praised the country's correctional services for ensuring prisoners were able to vote in a safe and controlled setting.
The men arrested in India are not the Gupta brothers South Africa is trying to extradite for State Capture offences.
Established in 1957, it had served as cornerstone of the justice system.
Justice Mokgoro, who was an celebrated member of the Order of the Baobab, died on May 9 at the age of 73 and will buried on Thursday.
Described as leader with great integrity who used life to inspire other women
According to the indictments, some time prior to the incident, Magugu had sought assistance from Naidoo to rob the deceased, and he agreed to do so.
The Minister of Justice Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, has given the green light to re-open the inquests into the deaths of anti-apartheid activists, Chief Albert Luthuli and Griffiths Mxenge and civic leader Booi Mantyi, who died under mysterious circumstances.
“With these inquests, we open very real wounds which are more difficult to open 30 years into our democracy, but nonetheless, the interest of justice can never be bound by time; the truth must prevail,” he said.
The Presidency said the decision was taken in light of the importance of protecting Muslim women and children of Muslim marriages, particularly when a Muslim marriage is dissolved.
Herron took issue that the NPA was yet to complete the identification of perpetrators of apartheid-era crimes as recommended by the TRC.
The South African government forked out at least R2 million for officials on a trip to the International Court of Justice, in a bid to stop Israel's war on Gaza.
The NPA was not in possession of a definitive list of cases that were transferred from the TRC.
The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola said the SIU sent a request to his department last year to amend the scope of the investigation.
The NPA previously said the establishment of a commission of inquiry was the preserve of the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services.
Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola said he was still going to decide on the recommendation by advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza SC for a commission of inquiry regarding political interference in the prosecution of apartheid-era crimes.
The top three police stations where cases were struck off the roll were 17 from Atlantis, 11 from Kleinvlei, and nine from Kraaifontein.
Senior judicial officer disappointed at justice ministry’s failure to tackle long-standing under-capacitation of courts
The new high security court complex boasts seven courtrooms, which entail three district courts, a family court, a regional court, an equality court and a sexual offences court, which is victim-centric.