The Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services is a portfolio committee of the National Assembly of South Africa. It is responsible for oversight of the agencies managed by the Minister of Correctional Services, including the Department of Correctional Services.
The committee was established during the first post-apartheid Parliament, with Carl Niehaus as its inaugural chairperson. After the 2014 general election, it was merged into the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services, in response to the corresponding ministerial merger that created the Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services. That merger was reversed after the 2024 general election and an independent portfolio committee was re-established.
List of chairpersons To date, all chairpersons of the committee have been members of the African National Congress (ANC), the national governing party.
2024–present: Correctional Services SessionChairpersonPartyElection dateCitation7th ParliamentAnthea Ramolobeng ANC9 July 2024 2014–2024: Justice and Correctional Services
+Chairpersons of the Committee on Justice and Correctional ServicesSessionChairpersonPartyElection dateCitation27th ParliamentGratitude MagwanisheANC2 July 201926th ParliamentRefiloe MothapoANC9 October 2018Mathole MotshekgaANC24 June 2014
1994–2014: Correctional Services +Chairpersons of the Committee on Correctional ServicesSessionChairpersonPartyElection dateCitation25th ParliamentVincent Smith ANC27 May 200924th ParliamentDennis BloemANC25 June 2004Lewele ModisenyaneANC11 May 200423rd ParliamentNtsiki Mashimbye ANC7 May 200222nd ParliamentLimpho HaniANC1996Carl NiehausANC1994 References
External links
Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services at Parliament of South Africa Correctional Services at Parliamentary Monitoring Group