The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is a national department under the national government of South Africa.
The vision of the Department of Correctional Services is to contribute to a just, peaceful and safer South Africa through effective and humane incarceration of inmates, and rehabilitation and social reintegration of offenders.
The strategic objectives of the Department of Correctional Services are:
- Building organisational capacity for enhanced service delivery
- Effective management of business processes to promote good governance and ethical administration
- Providing a secured ICT infrastructure and business systems
- Professionalising for effective human resource management and development
- An effective management of remand detention processes to promote conducive participation in court processes
- Holding remand detainees and offenders in secure, safe and humane conditions
- Effective case management process
- Effective incarceration and rehabilitation to protect society
- Correcting offender behaviour through access to correctional programmes and psychological, social and spiritual services
- Improving offenders’ human development through literacy, education and skills competency programmes
- Reduced re-offending to contribute to a safer South Africa
- Providing inmates with appropriate nutritional services
- Providing inmates with appropriate access to health services
- Rehabilitating, monitoring and accepting probationers and parolees as law-abiding citizens by the communities
- Providing offenders with access to restorative justice processes
- Effective management and functioning of the parole boards
Reporting Entities
- Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (JICS)
Office Bearers/Management
Minister
- Dr Petrus Johannes Groenewald (Minister of Correctional Services) (VF PLUS)
Deputy Minister
- Ms Leonah Lindiwe Ntshalintshali (Deputy Minister of Correctional Services) (ANC)
National Commissioner
- Mr Makgothi Samuel Thobakgale
Chief of Staff
- Mr Bruce Sarela
Chief Financial Officer
- Mr Lebogang Marumule (Acting)
Chief Deputy Commissioners
- Justice Edwin Cameron (Inspecting Judge of Correctional Services)
- Mr KJ Katenga (Strategic Management)
- Mr E Maponya (GITO)
- Mr Phiko Mbambo (Community Corrections)
- Ms Anna Molepo (Incarceration and Corrections)
- Mr TK Mthombeni (Acting: Human Resources)
- Ms Cynthia Ramulifho (Remand Detention)
Regional Commissioners
- Mr Delekile Klaas (Western Cape)
- Adv Patrick Mashibini (Gauteng)
- Ms Subashini Moodley (Free State and Northern Cape)
- Mr Lucky Mthethwa (Acting: Eastern Cape)
- Mr M Nxele (KwaZulu-Natal)
- Mr Tlabo Thokolo (Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West)
Senior Management
- Adv Ayesha Johaar (Acting: Chief State Law Adviser)
Communications Officers
- Mr Logan Maistry (Chief Director: Communications)
- Ms Delsy Moraba (Cabinet Liaison Officer)
- Mr Sechaba Mphahlele (Media Liaison Officer)
- Singabakho Nxumalo
- Mr Chrispin Phiri (Ministerial Spokesperson)
- Mr Gabriel Seakamela (Stakeholder Relations and Protocol)
- Mr Mfuzo Zenzile (Parliamentary Liaison Officer)
Secretaries
- Ms Thembi Gwamanda (Personal Assistant: National Commissioner)
- Mrs Audrey Mahlalela (Personal Assistant: Minister)
- Ms Jamela Mhlarhi (Personal Assistant: Deputy Minister)
- Ms Patience Mokgokong (Personal Assistant)
Contact Details
The contact details of the Department of Correctional Services are listed in the table below.
| Physical Address: | Poyntons Building (West Block), 124 WF Nkomo Street (Cnr WF Nkomo & Sophie De Bruyn Streets), Pretoria, 0001 |
| Postal Address: | Private Bag X136, Pretoria, 0001 |
| Telephone: | 012 307 2998/9 |
| Email: | communications@dcs.gov.za |
| Website: | www.dcs.gov.za |
