‘ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION’ BILL TABLED

‘ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION’ BILL TABLED

• 05 November 2024
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

The DA’s Glynnis Breytenbach has tabled a Constitution 21^st  Amendment Bill in Parliament with the intention of garnering sufficient support among GNU MPs for establishing an Anti-Corruption Commission. According to a memorandum on the Bill’s objects, this would:

• relieve the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of ‘the enormous workload of grand corruption … plagu(ing) South Africa’, thus
• ‘allowing … (the NPA) to concentrate on their core function of prosecuting crime independently, without fear, favour, or prejudice’, and
• ‘giv(ing) them space to rebuild an essential institution’.

According to Breytenbach’s media statement on the Bill, as a Constitution Chapter 9 institution:

• the commission envisaged would be ‘both institutionally and operationally independent’
• its members would have ‘protected tenure and be subject and responsible only to the Constitution and the rule of law’, and
• would be able ‘not only to investigate but also to prosecute these serious cases’.

A pre-tabling explanatory summary of the Bill was gazetted in April 2024, as SA Legal Academy reported at the time and parliamentary papers have since confirmed.

• Bill
• media statement
• parliamentary papers
• SA Legal Academy report

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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