Submissions

Appointing Directors to the Boards of State-Owned Enterprises: A proposed framework to assess suitability

This submission considers a selection of the provisions of the draft SAPS Bill 2020 affecting local and provincial government.

This submission deals with two issues (1) Coordination across the criminal justice system (2) Priorities for reform in SAPS as they pertain to the draft SAPS Amendment Bill 2020.

ACJR Submission to the City of Cape Town: Proposed by-law amendments | May 2020

ACJR Submission on Criminal Matters Amendment Bill 2020 | April 2020

ACJR Submission to the National Council of Provinces Select Committee on Security and Justice on the Judicial Matters Amendment Bill B13B OF 2019 | July 2020

ACJR Submission to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services on the Judicial Matters Amendment Bill B13 of 2019 | November 2019.

ACJR Submission to the Western Cape Provincial Police Ombudsman: Quality of victim support services and democratic policing | April 2020

"The current legislation, structure, policies and operations of the NPA result in the outcome that few persons are convicted of serious crimes, and that state officials, in particular, are more likely to escape prosecution. That is, state officials experience impunity for rights violations and for offences related to state capture."

It is our submission that the issue to be addressed, namely the independence of IPID also relates to the relationship between IPID and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and this submission focuses on that relationship as described in section 7(4-5) of the IPID Act. It will be submitted below that the effectiveness and impact of IPID is essentially at the mercy of the NPA.

In late May 2018 the Department of Correctional Services in South Africa hosted a roundtable to discuss its “Position paper: a revised parole system for South Africa”. Submissions were invited prior to the round table and ACJR made a submission critical of the position paper. Key problems identified, amongst others, are: the lack of quantitative data in the position paper making it difficult to formulate policy in the absence of fact; the large number of prisoners serving life imprisonment received scant attention; and that proposed separate legislation to govern parole may not solve problems in the current system.