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Strategic Plan for the period 2025-2030

Strategic Plan for the period 2021-2025The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has developed its 2025-30 Strategic Plan which addresses priorities 2 and 3 of the Medium-Term Development Plan. This strategic plan will be translated into detailed Annual Performance Plans to ensure effective implementation and monitoring throughout the five-year period.

The Department is pivotal in establishing a capable, ethical, and developmental state. This plan incorporates various interventions, including specialized training, to empower officials and bridge skills gaps, enabling them to effectively fulfil their duties as a catalyst to improve service delivery. The Department's improved performance reflects the dedicated efforts of officials at all management levels. During this strategic cycle, we aim to build on the progress made in the previous administration and address past Auditor-General findings. We remain committed to achieving unqualified audit opinions on the Department's Vote, predetermined objectives, and administered funds.

In alignment with the government transformation agenda, the Department will continue to sustain female representation in the Senior Management Service (SMS) and Middle Management Service (MMS) positions. Furthermore, we have reached 2% representation of persons with disabilities and 21% representation of youth.

The modernisation of justice services remains a key priority for the Department to increase access. Although some strides were achieved in the previous cycle progress has been slower than anticipated. This is amongst other things attributed to the outdated IT infrastructure which the Department has had to prioritise. To speed up the modernization process, the Department has capacitated the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) branch, approved its Modernisation and Digitalisation Strategy, and established well-functioning ICT Committees to ensure good governance. In the 2019-2025 Strategic cycle, the Department successfully ensured the accessibility of 5 justice services online. The intention is to increase the online services to 16 by 2030 and capacitate all our courts to provide virtual proceedings. This will not only improve accessibility but will also ensure efficiency and ultimately enhance the quality of justice delivery.

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Annual Performance Plan for the period 2025-2026

Annual Performance Plan for the period 2024-2025The Department 2025/26 APP performance cycle marks the inception of the Medium-Term Development Plan, which sets out priorities of the 7th Administration government for the next five years. To drive the success of these priorities, The Department committed over the 2024-2029 MTDP period, to contribute Strategic Priority 3 which aims to build a capable, ethical and developmental state.

The impact that the Department desire to achieve of improved public perception, confidence in the justice system and respect for the rule of law is strongly dependent on its ability to effectively and efficiently provide justice services to the public and bringing to book those who are found to be on the wrong side of the law. Concerted efforts will be made to ensure that this is realised.

Constitutionalism The DOJ&CD is committed to ensuring that all South Africans are informed about their constitutional rights and the justice services available to them. Over the next five years, we will intensify our outreach programs, aiming to bolster the promotion and awareness and improve perception of justice services and the Constitution across the country.

The Department will continue to contribute through conducting training programmes that will provide tailor made and targeted training and development interventions, as part of building a capable, ethical and developmental state by putting emphasis on the provision of progressive training interventions to empower and makes employees feel valued, with the aim of fostering a shared common understanding of the role and ethos of the public service and improvement of service delivery.

The Modernization & Digitalization Strategy guides the Department toward continued digital transformation and improvement. The Department will continue carry out the modernisation agenda by ensuring that our services are accessed online to allow the public to initiate new applications, monitor application progress, schedule appointments, track payments, submit follow-up applications after court orders, as well as integrate with other government agencies and implement a new Integrated Case Management Solution (ICMS) as part of its digital transformation strategy, aimed at enhancing productivity, reducing costs, and creating a seamless digital environment. In addition, the plan is add 2 online services; namely Insolvency and Expungement online applications that will be accessible online in pursuit of digitally transforming the Departments services, using online channels and roll out Court Audio Visual Solution to 325 courts which will enable court proceedings such as testifying and interpreting to be done virtually.

In addition, The Department will implement the Court Recording Audio-Visual Solution (CRAVS) to replace the outdated Court Recording Technology (CRT). This technology will allow parties facilitating virtual engagement in various legal processes; facilitating virtual legal processes such as appearances, remands, testimony, and trials and enable real-time automated transcriptions of court proceedings and support AI-driven language interpretation. This digital intervention will also protect vulnerable victims, like women and children, by allowing them to attend court remotely, and reduce the risk of detainee escapes and transportation costs.

Follow this link to read the Departmental Annual Performance Plan 2025-2026.pdf [3.56mb, updated 14 April 2025]
Published on 14 April 2025. Awaiting an update