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The Special Investigating Unit ( SIU) is an independent agency of the South African government which investigates corruption and maladministration in state institutions. It was first established in July 1997 by President Nelson Mandela, although it has not operated continuously since then. As of 2022, the SIU was headed by Advocate Andy Mothibi ...
A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2022. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 41 per 100,000 in 2021 after a brief drop in 2020.
The Crime Intelligence Division of the South African Police Service is an intelligence agency that tracks criminal elements within the Republic of South Africa. It is run by a Divisional Commissioner, who is also a member of the National Intelligence Co-Ordinating Committee (NICOC), to which they report. The main functions of the CI division ...
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), commonly known as the Hawks, is the branch of the South African Police Service which investigates organised crime, economic crime, corruption, and other serious crime referred to it by the President or another division of the police. [1] The unit was established in 2008 by President Jacob ...
Criminal procedure in South Africa. Criminal procedure in South Africa refers to the adjudication process of that country 's criminal law. It forms part of procedural or adjectival law, and describes the means by which its substantive counterpart, South African criminal law, is applied. It has its basis mainly in English law .
South African criminal law is the body of national law relating to crime in South Africa. In the definition of Van der Walt et al., a crime is "conduct which common or statute law prohibits and expressly or impliedly subjects to punishment remissible by the state alone and which the offender cannot avoid by his own act once he has been ...
List of law schools in South Africa. Location of South Africa. University of Pretoria Faculty of Law. University of Stellenbosch Faculty of Law. University of Fort Hare Faculty of Law. University of Cape Town Kramer Law School. This is a list of law schools in South Africa .
The South African Police Service ( SAPS) is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. Its 1,154 police stations [2] in South Africa are divided according to the provincial borders, and a Provincial Commissioner is appointed in each province. The nine Provincial Commissioners report directly to the National Commissioner.