Civil society calls for structural overhaul of criminal justice system at Ad Hoc Committee

By Johnathan Paoli

Civil society organisations Accountability Now and the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF) have warned Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee investigating allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption, that the country’s policing and prosecutorial architecture is fundamentally unfit to confront entrenched corruption and executive interference.

Leading the morning, Accountability Now Chairperson and senior counsel Paul Hoffman started his presentation with stressing the extent to which corruption has hamstrung criminal justice in South Africa.

“The nub of the problem is that the criminal justice administration in South Africa is dysfunctional because corruption with impunity is rampant in the land, and that is what this committee is going to have to address from the point of view of Parliament,” Hoffman said.

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