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Assented to. 27 April 2004. Commenced. 27 April 2004. Status: In force. Prevention of Corrupt Activities Act, Act 12 of 2004 in South Africa provides for the strengthening of measures to prevent and combat corruption and corrupt activities in both the public and private sectors of South African society.
It is the largest independent research institute in Africa dealing with human security [3] and is headquartered in Pretoria, South Africa, with offices in Kenya, Ethiopia and Senegal. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2019, it was ranked 116th by the Global Go To Think Tanks Report and 55th among think tanks outside the United States.
Lazada Group ( Chinese: 來贊達; t/a Lazada) is an international e-commerce company and one of the largest e-commerce operators in Southeast Asia, with over 10,000 third-party sellers as of November 2014, and 50 million annual active buyers as of September 2019. [ 3][ 4][ 5][needs update] Backed by Rocket Internet, Maximilian Bittner founded ...
Crime in South Africa. A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2022. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 41 per 100,000 in 2021 ...
Micki Pistorius is a South African forensic or investigative psychologist and author. She was the first woman in her profession and the first profiler in South Africa, working on many high-profile cases involving serial killers for the South African Police Service in the 1990s. She is known for her autobiography, Catch Me a Killer (2000), on ...
The Prevention of Organised Crime Act (No. 121 of 1998) is a statute promulgated by the Parliament of South Africa. It introduced measures to allow prosecutors to combat organised crime, [ 1] money laundering, [ 2] and gang activity. [ 1] It also prohibited certain types of racketeering activities [ 3] and abolished money laundering [ 2] and ...
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), commonly known as the Hawks, is the branch of the South African Police Service which investigates organised crime, economic crime, corruption, and other serious crime referred to it by the President or another division of the police. [1] The unit was established in 2008 by President Jacob ...
In May 1996, South Africa became the first jurisdiction in the world to provide constitutional protection to LGBT people, via section 9 (3) of the South African Constitution, which disallows discrimination on race, gender, sexual orientation and other grounds. Since 16 December 2007, all discriminatory provisions have been formally repealed.