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Ten facts about SA’s watch-dog – Independent Police Investigative Directorate...
The IPID Act was signed into law on 12 May 2011. IPID is an independent organisation that reports to the Minister of Police and functions independently of the SA Police Service (SAPS) The Act empowers...
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10 Things to know about the Police Brutality Legal Clinic
The Police Brutality Legal Clinic is run by ProBono.Org, an NGO which works with private legal practitioners to provide pro-bono legal services to those who can’t afford to pay for these resources...
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10 things to know about South African Correctional Centres
1. There are 243 correctional centres in South Africa, according to Department of Correctional Services’ (DCS) 2013/14 annual report. 2. In the late 1990s the South African government ‘demilitarised’...
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Roundup of criminal justice stories making news this week
“Number of children awaiting trial drops”: SA News, May 31. According to the Department of Correctional Services, the number of children awaiting trial in the country’s remand detention facilities has...
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Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke on open justice and freedom of the press
Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke spoke at the National Press Club – North West University Newsmaker of the Year for 2014.On the backdrop of the Oscar Pistorius trial winning Newsmaker of the Year,...
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Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke on transparency of the judicial process
South Africans are entitled to a judicial system that they can trust; Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke expressed this sentiment. Moseneke was speaking at the National Press Club Newsmaker of 2014...
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Mangaung prison inmate ‘tortured to death’
“On a cold winter day in 2005, inmate Isaac Nelani asked wardens at Mangaung prison, run by British security firm G4S, for an extra blanket to keep him warm. The prison walls emitted a chill that crept...
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ConCourt judge’s damning report on Pollsmoor
Justice Edwin Cameron has recently published a report on his visit to Pollsmoor Prison in April. He said he was “deeply shocked” by the “extent of overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, sickness,...
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