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Justice and Constitutional Development Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi leads a community outreach to raise awareness on child maintenance and domestic violence in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape on May 23, 2025.
Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi says her department is committed to reviewing South Africa’s parole laws as well as the Criminal Procedure Act.
This comes after police revealed that two of the three suspects wanted in connection with the murder of 30-year-old Olorato Mongale had been out on bail.
The two suspects were arrested last month on charges of kidnapping and robbery. This has highlighted concerns to better protect ordinary citizens.
Kubayi says the Justice Department is working on ways to protect society without violating the rights of the accused.
She says, “As the Justice Cluster, we have agreed that we are going to review our processes. We are going to look at where the gaps are. Today, fortunately, we had a Justice Cluster meeting, what we call JCPS (Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster).”
Kubayi says, “One of the items was to look at the parole, how far are we in terms of reviewing the parole and also the criminal procedure act that we are responsible for. So both the Department of Correctional Services and the Department of Justice having to review that. There are interim measures that the minister has committed to putting in place to assist in terms of responding to this, where there are high crimes.”
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