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2004/04/06
B Skosana: Address to members of the Diplomatic Corps
Programme Director The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Your Excellency, Dr Abdella Alzubedi Commissioner Linda Mti Your Excellencies Members of the Diplomatic Community here present Representatives of other sister Governments Departments present Management and staff of Correctional Services Distinguished guests Ladies and Gentlemen. Your Excellencies, you are aware that my Department does not impact directly on my country's foreign policy except through our Criminal Justice System. [highlighted result]
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2004/04/08
B Skosana meets members of the Diplomatic Corps
The Minister of Correctional Services, Mr Ben Skosana, MP, met with members of the Diplomatic Corps in Pretoria this week, to discuss issues of mutual interest. Mr Skosana and members of the top management of the Department of Correctional Services, briefed the diplomats on the strategic developments within the Department. The Department of Correctional Services is presently developing policy guidelines on the issue of prisoner transfer agreements and needed to consult on this matter with ... [highlighted result]
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2004/03/10
B Skosana: Celebrating the tenth anniversary of South African democracy
To mark the celebration of the history of African-Americans and ten years of democracy in South Africa, the United States Embassy in South Africa together with the University of Pretoria held a two-day seminar. Cognisant of the globalisation challenges facing the African continent, it became obvious that South Africa has to ensure that it accelerates its own development in order to withstand these challenges, and to create an environment in which South Africa can meaningfully participate in ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2004/04031609461006.htm Size: 27KB Source: Ministry of Correctional Services Speaker: B Skosana Collection: gov
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2004/03/09
B Skosana to attend seminar on Ten Years of Democracy in US
The Minister has been invited by the President of Jackson State University, Mr Renald Mason Jr, and will have an opportunity to address representatives of various professional bodies apart from faculty and students of the university. Correctional Services has had a long-standing co-operation agreement with Jackson State University according to which staff members of the department pursue higher education at the university. Some senior officials of the department are accompanying the Minister. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2004/04031015461002.htm Size: 7KB Source: Department of Correctional Services Collection: gov
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2004/02/18
B Skosana meets POPCRU leadership
The Minister of Correctional Services, Mr Ben Skosana, MP, yesterday held a meeting with the leadership of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) in Cape Town to discuss issues of concern. The meeting which included the Commissioner, Mr Linda Mti, and senior Departmental officials appreciated the need to hold further meetings to discuss the issue of the Departmental Medical Scheme (Medcor), the payment of overtime as well as the question of the remuneration of new recruits. In ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2004/04022314461007.htm Size: 7KB Source: Ministry of Correctional Services Collection: gov
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2004/02/13
B Skosana: Parliamentary Media Briefing, February 2004
We have established relations with such organisations as the American Correctional Association (ACA) in which the Minister is Vice-Chairperson of the International Relations Committee, the International Prison Chaplaincy Association (IPCA), the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) and others. A meeting is soon to be held between the Department and members of the diplomatic corps based in South Africa whose nationals are incarcerated in our prisons and those whose prisons ... [highlighted result]
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2004/01/15
B Skosana: Achievements of Correctional Services, Howard University
I wish to express my immense pleasure in being afforded the opportunity to outline some of the achievements of our Department of Correctional Services in the past few years, as well as to outline our long-term objectives in efforts to make ours one of the best correctional services in the world. In 2002/2003 the Department instituted a restructuring process in order to meet the Government's overall service delivery objectives as well as to place individuals into positions where they could ... [highlighted result]
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2004/01/15
Skosana: ACA Winter Conference. Achievements of Correctional Services
The Department continued to promote and strengthen partnerships with the community through Imbizo whereby a platform was provided for the community to raise its concerns and also to inform the communities of Government activities. In 2002/2003 the Department instituted a restructuring process in order to meet the Government's overall service delivery objectives as well as to place individuals into positions where they could better serve the Department in accordance with their qualifications ... [highlighted result]
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2004/01/08
B Skosana to attend American Correctional Association conference, 12 - 14 Jan
The Minister of Correctional Services, Mr Ben Skosana, leaves for the United States today to attend the 2004 Winter Conference of the American Correctional Association (ACA) that will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana from Saturday, 10 January 2004. The Minister, who is the Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the ACA, is accompanied by the Commissioner of Correctional Services, Mr Linda Mti, and other senior officials of the department. From New Orleans, Minister Skosana will ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2004/04011209461007.htm Size: 8KB Source: Department of Correctional Services Collection: gov
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2003/11/27
Skosana: 16 Days of Activism & World AIDS Day
The South African Police Service, the Department of Social Development and the Department of Correctional Services will re-commit to servicing the victims and survivors of violence with sensitivity and the necessary determination to punish the perpetrators of violence in the home, in communities and the workplace. The department has successfully implemented partnerships with various community-based organisations, national departments and donor organisations. The department is currently ... [highlighted result]
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2003/11/26
Skosana presents draft White Paper on Corrections to portfolio committee
The Minister of Correctional Services, Mr Ben M Skosana, today presented the department's draft White Paper to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services. This new direction is setting new major challenges to both the broader society and the Department of Correctional Services. Correction is not a responsibility of the Department of Correctional Services alone - it is a shared responsibility with society. [highlighted result]
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2003/11/23
The United Nations' International Handbook on Justice for Victims notes that "the framework for restorative justice involves the offender, the victim, and the entire community in efforts to create a balanced approach that is offender directed and, at the same time, victim-centred". The Department of Correctional Services envisages that by embracing the principle of restorative justice, the healing of victims, offenders and communities will be promoted. The Restorative Justice Centre is ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2003/03112412461003.htm Size: 23KB Source: Ministry of Correctional Services Speaker: Skosana Collection: gov
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2003/11/22
Skosana: Launch of Mohlakeng MPCC
The Mohlakeng MPCC here in the West Rand is the tenth MPCC in Gauteng established in response to the needs of communities for information and services. * For communities to tell government what information and services they need so that government departments and other partners from parastatals and NGOs can then respond to these needs. The services in this centre reflect all the three spheres of government as service providers range from the local, provincial and national spheres. [highlighted result]
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2003/11/21
Skosana: Gauteng Correctional Services gala dinner
It is a great pleasure for me to be here tonight to celebrate with you when we recognise the fruits of the hard work that has been put in by the men and women of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) in Gauteng. We ask all sectors of our society to join hands with government in fighting violence against women and children because government on its own cannot succeed in fighting violence against women and children. The South African Police Service, the Department of Social Development ... [highlighted result]
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2003/11/21
Skosana & Gungubele open Mohlakeng MPCC in Gauteng
Gauteng will enhance service delivery to the residents of the West Rand when it opens a Multi-Purpose Community Centre (MPCC) in Mohlakeng, near Randfontein tomorrow, 22 November. Correctional Services Minister Ben Skosana, provincial Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture MEC, Mondli Gungubele, and mayors from the district municipality will attend the opening ceremony. MPCCs bring together services from all three spheres of government - national, provincial and local government. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2003/03112410211007.htm Size: 8KB Source: Gauteng Provincial Government Collection: gov
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2003/11/18
Skosana: President's Award for Youth Empowerment ceremony
We are convinced that the President's Award programme, which is a self-development programme available to young offenders equipping them with life skills to make a difference to themselves, their communities and their world, forms part of rehabilitation programmes for young offenders in our department. A President's Award Gold Ceremony was hosted in July last year and during this prestigious event, the former President Dr Nelson Mandela, who is the Patron-in-Chief, accompanied by the Earl of ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2003/03111912461002.htm Size: 19KB Source: Ministry of Correctional Services Speaker: Skosana Collection: gov
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2003/11/07
Skosana: Canadian Congress on Criminal Justice
Research in South Africa released in 2002 has confirmed a high positive correlation between drug use and other crimes. South Africa is party to the 1996 SADC Protocol on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking. South Africa is also a party to the 1961 United Nations (UN) Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and the 1972 Protocol amending the Single Convention, the 1971 UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 UN Drug Convention. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2003/03111109461005.htm Size: 29KB Source: Department of Correctional Services Speaker: Skosana Collection: gov
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2003/10/17
Imbizo Focus Week: Skosana: Ekuseni Youth Development Centre
This will hopefully help to build a partnership of government and the people in fulfilment of the current theme of "Building a people's contract for Growth and Development". Building a people's contract for growth and development means contributing to a growing economy that expands economic opportunities and skills development to help reduce unemployment. It will be recalled that the establishment of the Ekuseni Youth Development Centre here in Newcastle was initiated by my predecessor, Dr ... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2003/03101711461003.htm Size: 17KB Source: Ministry of Correctional Services Speaker: Imbizo Focus Week: Skosana Collection: gov
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2003/10/15
Imbizo Focus Week: Skosana visits Ekuseni Youth Centre, KZN
The Department of Correctional Services is proud to announce that the Minister of Correctional Services, Mr Ben M Skosana, will host a ministerial Imbizo at Ekuseni Youth Centre near Newcastle. The event is subsequent to other successful Imbizo gatherings that the Minister of Correctional Services led previously. The Department of Correctional Services is committed to the fight against crime and its contribution to the attainment of a peaceful, just and safe society. [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2003/03101711461002.htm Size: 8KB Source: Department of Correctional services Speaker: Imbizo Focus Week Collection: gov
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2003/09/29
Skosana: Youth Awareness Day celebrations
As a contribution by my department to nib crime in the butt, it is our intention to institute a programme, which will assist school children like yourselves to visit our prisons so that you may have an idea of life behind bars. I am encouraged to note that the Department of Correctional Services here in Malmesbury has the project "Ithuba Lesibini", which when translated means "a second chance". Your association with "Ithuba Lesibini" project is a significant contribution to our rehabilitation... [highlighted result]
URL: http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2003/03101409461008.htm Size: 18KB Source: Ministry of Correctional Services Speaker: Skosana Collection: gov