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This follows the National Assembly’s Section 194 committee resolvement to continue its inquiry to impeach the Public Protector, after the Constitutional Court’s judgement last month cleared the way for the process to resume. 

Parliament is set to approve regulations that would allow a law raising children's criminal liability from 10 to 12 years. President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Child Justice Amendment Act into law in May 2020. This act amended the Child Justice Act of 2008.

Parliament is set to approve regulations that would allow a law raising children's criminal liability from 10 to 12 years.

In seeking protection to under-18s, the lawyers and ministers argue that a criminal justice response is wholly inappropriate and that less-restrictive means are available to address this type of behaviour by children.

Legislation aimed to kickstart the commercial recreational cannabis industry will not benefit the rural communities who have been cultivating the plant for generations

The Women’s Legal Centre on Friday voiced its disappointment at the long awaited South African Law Reform Commission which has recommended that sex work should be fully criminalised.

The Commission for Gender Equality believes recent developments on the future of sex work in South Africa mark "significant progress" towards legalising it and improving the status of sex workers.



The Zondo Commission has found that the value of crooked contracts given to Bosasa by government departments was at least R2.37bn. And the ANC is deeply implicated in the skulduggery.

Busisiwe Mkhwebane has spent her entire controversial tenure as Public Protector living in a luxury Pretoria ministerial estate among the very executive she is meant to oversee.

The Centre for Child Law wants the ConCourt to confirm a High Court ruling, declaring provisions of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act unconstitutional to the extent that it criminalises the use or possession of cannabis by a child.