26 March 2021: This webinar reviews the imposition of a “hard” lockdown on 26 March 2020 by the South African government. It forms part of a series on the "unwanted anniversary" from the various units of the Dullah Omar Institute. This webinar focuses on the balancing of rights and the use of the criminal justice system in imposing restrictions in South Africa.
17 March 2021: This webinar will review the 2019/2020 Annual Report of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
23 July: Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (OPCAT) and the Establishment of a National Preventative Mechanism (NPM)
10 October 2019: ACJR together with other Civil Society Organizations launched the South African camapaign on decriminalisation and declassification of petty by-laws.
10 August: The report, by ACJR and CESAB, launches at the Attorney-General's office in Maputo
The webinar will unpack the impact of laws and policies on people working in the informal economy, address rights-based protections afforded to them and highlight key considerations for law and policy-making that protect their needs and interests.
Please note that this webinar has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. A new date will be communicated in due course.
ACJR hereby cordially invites you to the first of a series of webinars on sub-national governance and the criminalisation of poverty and status.
What do magistrates think about prosecutors? ACJR’s work on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has included attempts at measuring perceptions of stakeholders, particularly those with direct experience of the prosecution.
Under the current National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) four core values were articulated, being professionalism, independence, accountability and credibility. What do any of these values look like in practice and how will we know when we see it?
ACJR, Ubuntu Justice Initiative, and the Zambian Law Development Commission (ZLDC) hereby cordially invite you to a webinar to discuss the findings emanating from the stakeholder engagement in Zambia and to deliberate on recommendations for handling similar future public health crises.
ACJR and LRF hereby cordially invites you to a webinar to discuss the findings emanating from the stakeholder engagement in Kenya and to deliberate on recommendations for handling similar future public health crisis.
The annual convening of the Global Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status, of which Africa Criminal Justice Reform is a member will be held from 27 – 29 September 2022 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The conference will take on the theme: ‘Decriminalising Status and Activism’.
ACJR and CHREAA hereby cordially invites you to a webinar to discuss the findings emanating from the stakeholder engagement in Malawi and to deliberate on recommendations for handling similar future public health crisis.
Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa & Zambia
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) must prosecute corruption at all levels of government. While much of the focus has been on the capture of national government and national state-owned enterprises (SOE's), there has also been widespread corruption in municipalities.
In a series of five Issue Papers, Lukas Muntingh and Jean Redpath take a few steps back and ask whether we are indeed problematising the correct issues and, if so, are we problematising the issue in a manner that will restore trust and thus legitimacy in the NPA. From this position we can also examine our current and future expectations of the NPA.
The Multilevel Government, Law and Development and Africa Criminal Justice Reform in collaboration with Hanns Seidel Foundation invites you to a webinar on Local Government and Crime in light of the 2021 Local Government Elections.
Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) has produced a compendium of reports on the COVID-19 measures taken in five African countries, namely; Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia. Please join ACJR for a 90-minute webinar to release the main findings.
This webinar is based on a paper which seeks to understand why that might be the case and proposes a process and a logic for developing prosecution priorities which may change this result and improve the impact of prosecutions.
This webinar will explore the rationale, law and possibilities for delegation of the prosecution function to appropriate state entities.
Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) is hosting a virtual meeting on 4 August 2021 on a 'New research paper "The prosecution service and the provinces"' by Prof Lukas Muntingh
16 July 2021: The Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights, University of the Western Cape, and the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, cordially invite you to the Julius Osega Memorial Lecture 2021:
3 March 2021: This webinar will review South Africa's Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services' Annual Report 2019/2021.
24 February 2021: This webinar will consider the 2019/2020 Annual Reports of the South Africa Police Service (SAPS) and South Africa's Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), released later than usual in 2020 in South Africa.
24 February 2021: The South African Police Service (SAPS) budget exceeded R100 billion for the first time in 2020/2021, with increases to SAPS over time tending to beat inflation. The SAPS Annual Report for the previous year, 2019/2020, only became available in late 2020. This report sheds some light on where and how this money is usually spent prior to the State of Disaster conditions. What can the Annual Report tell us about the state of policing before the State of Disaster? The SAPS Annual Report 2019/20 can be found here. The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is supposed to ensure certain prescribed actions by SAPS members are carefully scrutinised and members are held to account. What does the IPID Annual Report for 2019/2020 tell us about the extent to which they are able to do so? The IPID Annual Report 2019/20 can be found here. This webinar will pick out highlights and lowlights from the 2019/2020 Annual Reports of SAPS and IPID with a particular focus on the failure to discipline and hold SAPS members accountable for their actions. Facilitator: Kristen Petersen Panellists: • Jean Redpath (ACJR) • Lukas Muntingh (ACJR) • Janelle Mangwanda (ACJR) After registration participants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining each webinar. ACJR wishes to acknowledge the Open Society Foundation-South Africa and the Sigrid Rausing Trust for making these webinars possible.
16 February 2021: This webinar will review the 2019/2020 Annual Report of South Africa's Correctional Services.
19 November 2020: This webinar will reflect on the state of play concerning prisoners’ right to vote in Africa and also cast a light on near-future elections, such as in Uganda and Zambia scheduled for 2021.
11 November 2020: This webinar will explore and reflect on the provisions of the draft SAPS Amendment Bill 2020 which impact upon the role of provincial and local government in policing and law enforcement in South Africa.
03 November 2020: ACJR has distilled some proposed key areas of reform which are likely to have multiplier-benefit while maintaining a balance between benefit and achievability; the authors will discuss and seek comment from participants on these recommendations for reform in this webinar.
