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Portfolio Committee On Justice And Constitutional Development
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development is a portfolio committee of the National Assembly of South Africa. It is responsible for oversight of the agencies managed by the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, including the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. The committee was established during the first post-apartheid Parliament as the Portfolio Committee on Justice, chaired for two terms by Johnny de Lange. It was renamed as the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development after the Department of Justice was renamed accordingly. Between 2014 and 2024, it oversaw an enlarged portfolio as the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services; the enlarged committee was created in a merger between the justice committee and Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services, precipitated by the corresponding ministerial merger that created the Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services. In addition to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Justice And Constitutional Development
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 law reform. The political head of the department is the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, who is supported by a Deputy Minister of Justice. the minister is Ronald Lamola and the deputy minister is John Jeffery. In the 2020 budget, R22,410.8 million was appropriated for the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, and a further R2,450.8 million for the Office of the Chief Justice and Judicial Administration. In the 2018/19 financial year the department had 22,050 employees, with a further 2,415 employees in the Office of the Chief Justice. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election installed Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa. Cyril Ramaphosa, the incumbent national President, has served as President of the ANC since 18 December 2017. Founded on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), the organisation was formed to agitate, by moderate methods, for the rights of black South Africans. When the National Party government came to power in 1948, the ANC's central purpose became to oppose the new government's policy of institutionalised apartheid. To this end, its methods and means of organisation shifted; its adoption of the techniques of mass politics, and the swelling of its membership, culminated in the Defiance Campaign of civil disobedience in 1952–53. The ANC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatima Chohan
Fatima Ismail Chohan (formerly known as Fatima Chohan-Kota) is a South African politician and activist who is currently deputy chair of the South African Human Rights Commission. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Chohan was formerly a member of the National Assembly of South Africa, where she served from 1996 to 2019. From 2010 to 2019, Chohan served as Deputy Minister of Home Affairs under President Jacob Zuma. A Muslim South African, Chohan is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Muslim Student Society. Early life and education Chohan completed her schooling in Laudium, Gauteng. She attended the University of Witwatersrand, where she received her B.Proc degree. As a student, Chohan was a member of the Black Students Society from 1987 to 1990, and also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Muslim Student Society. Legal career In 1998, Chohan was admitted to the Side Bar. Chohan was a legal advisor to the Gauteng Legislature and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24th South African Parliament
The 24th South African Parliament was the third Parliament of South Africa to convene since the introduction of non-racial government in South Africa in 1994. It was elected in the 14 April, 2004 general election, and was opened by re-elected president Thabo Mbeki's State of the Nation address in a joint sitting on 21 May 2004. The composition of the parliament was only slightly changed by the 2007 floor crossing window period, with the ANC retaining its majority and the Democratic Alliance retaining its lead of the opposition. It held its final session in February 2009, prior to the April 2009 elections.Linda Ensor. (11 February 2009)Parliament Will 'Have Enough Time' to Discuss Bill AllAfrica. See also * List of National Assembly members of the 24th Parliament of South Africa This is a list of members of the National Assembly in the 24th Parliament of South Africa as elected in the 2004 general election and accounting for changes in membership during the legislative te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngoako Ramatlhodi
Ngoako Ramatlhodi (born 21 August 1955), a senior member of the African National Congress, was South Africa's Minister of Public Service and Administration from 2015 to March 2017. In the first Zuma administration he had been an MP and a controversial member of the Judicial Service Commission. He resigned as MP in 2017. Up to 2015 he was Minister of Mineral Resources. Ramatlhodi claimed in 2017 that Eskom chairperson Ben Ngubane and chief executive Brian Molefe requested that he terminate Glencor's mining licenses in an apparent ruse to facilitate the sale of its Optimum coal mine to the Gupta family. He was assigned to his subsequent ministerial post after he supposedly did not comply. He was axed in the cabinet reshuffle of March 2017, allegedly without being given reasons. His position was taken by a known Zuma ally, the then Free State economic development MEC Mosebenzi Zwane. In the same reshuffle, finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas Mc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luwellyn Landers
Luwellyn Tyrone Landers (died November 2023) was a South African politician who was the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, along with Reginah Mhaule. He participated in the following parliamentary committees: Justice and Constitutional Development, Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, Joint Committee on Ethics and Members Interest, as well as the ANC National Disciplinary Committee. His death was announced on 25 November 2023. ''Times Live''. Retrieved 25 November 2023. See also * |
25th South African Parliament
The 25th South African Parliament was the fourth Parliament of South Africa to convene since the introduction of non-racial government in South Africa in 1994. It was elected in the general election of 22 April 2009, and first met on 6 May of that year to elect Jacob Zuma as the fourth President of South Africa. It was formally opened by the newly elected President's State of the Nation address in a joint sitting on 3 June 2009. The ANC retained its majority, although it was reduced to 264 seats out of 400 (66%) in the National Assembly, while the Democratic Alliance increased its lead of the opposition, taking 67 seats (16.75%). The Speaker of the National Assembly was Max Sisulu of the ANC and the Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces was M. J. Mahlangu Mninwa Johannes Mahlangu (born 8 October 1952) is a South African politician and diplomat. He was active in the Bantustan politics of Apartheid-era South Africa, serving as a parliamentarian in the former Lebowa ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathole Motshekga
Mathole Serofo Motshekga (born 2 April 1949) is a South African lawyer and politician who was elected to his third consecutive term as a Member of Parliament in the 2019 general election. He formerly represented his political party, the African National Congress (ANC), as the second Premier of Gauteng. Born in what is now Limpopo province, Motshekga was an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa during apartheid and also taught law at the University of South Africa. In September 1997, he was elected Provincial Chairperson of the ANC in Gauteng; he succeeded Tokyo Sexwale as Premier in January 1998. However, after the 1999 general election, newly elected President Thabo Mbeki asked Motshekga to resign as Premier. In subsequent years Motshekga served as a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and was Chief Whip of the Majority Party in the National Assembly from 2009 until 2013, when he was demoted to an ordinary seat in Parliament. He was also elected to the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Refiloe Mothapo
Madipoane Refiloe Moremadi Mothapo is a South African politician who has served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the African National Congress since 2021. She had previously served as an African National Congress MP from 2014 to 2019. Parliamentary career In 2014, Mothapo was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa from the ANC's Limpopo list. She was appointed to serve on the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services. On 8 March 2015, she became a member of the Constitutional Review Committee. On 17 May 2018, she was elected as an ANC Party Whip. Mothapo became the whip of the ANC's Study Group on Justice and Correctional Services on 30 May 2018. Mothapo was elected to chair the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services on 9 October 2018. As chair of the Justice and Correctional Services portfolio committee, the portfolio committee rejected a request by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) to expedite procedures t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
26th South African Parliament
The 26th South African Parliament was the fifth Parliament of South Africa to convene since the introduction of non-racial government in South Africa in 1994. It was elected in the general election of 7 May 2014 and consists of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces. The National Assembly contains 400 members, while the National Council of Provinces contains 90 members. Members of Parliament were sworn in on 21 May 2014. The 26th parliament first convened on 21 May 2014 to elect Jacob Zuma as the fifth democratically elected President of South Africa. It was formally opened by president Zuma's State of the Nation Address in a joint sitting on 17 June 2014. 13 Different political parties are represented in this parliament. The majority party in the 25th parliament, the African National Congress (ANC) retained its majority, although it was reduced to 249 (62%) seats, down from 264 seats out of 400 (66%), while the Democratic Alliance (DA) increased its lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gratitude Magwanishe
Gratitude Bulelani Magwanishe (born 20 Jan 1973) is a South African politician and lawyer, who is the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services. He is a former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry and has been a member of parliament for the African National Congress since 1999. Early political career Gratitude Bulelani Magwanishe served on the branch, regional and provincial structures of the ANC Youth League between 1991 and 2004. He represented Tsakane Youth Congress in the Conference for the democratic future in 1989. He was appointed to serve as a member of the Regional Interim Leadership Core of the African National Congress, after the dissolution of the Regional Leadership of Ekurhuleni by the Provincial Executive Committee of Gauteng from 2010 until 2011. He currently serves as a member of the national team on legal, monitoring and security of the ANC. Parliamentary career In 1999 he was elected to be a member of the National Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27th South African Parliament
The 27th South African Parliament is the sixth Parliament of South Africa to convene since the introduction of non-racial government in South Africa in 1994. It was elected in the general election of 8 May 2019 and consists of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces. The National Assembly contains 400 members, while the National Council of Provinces contains 90 members. It was formally opened by President Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address in a joint sitting on 20 June 2019. Members of Parliament were sworn in on 22 May 2019. The 27th Parliament first convened on 22 May 2019 to re-elect Cyril Ramaphosa as President of South Africa. Fourteen different political parties are represented in this parliament. The majority party in the 26th Parliament, the African National Congress (ANC) retained its majority, although it was reduced to 230 (57.50%) seats, down from the 249 seats out of 400 (62.25%) it had it in the previous Parliament, while the official oppos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
