LEGAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT
The Legal Services department’s purpose is to ensure that the Commission for Gender Equality achieves one of its four strategic objectives, which reads: “An enabling legislative environment for gender equality”. The department is led by the HOD, who is supported by a deputy and a team of legal officers who are based in the Commission’s provincial offices. As part of its work, the Department summons organisations and/individuals to legal hearings to account on matters relating to gender transformation. The department also publishes legal reports that provide insight into its various systemic investigations, with findings and recommendations. The Legal Services Department has been set up to do the following:

The Commission’s Legal Department had been set up to do the following:
- Investigate gender related complaints.
- Evaluate laws, customs, practices and Indigenous law, personal and family law affecting gender equality or status of women that are in force or proposed by Parliament.
- Recommend to parliament the adoption of laws that will promote gender equality and status of women.
- Monitor compliance with international conventions, covenants and International Charters acceded and ratified by the government that have a bearing on the object of the CGE.
- Make Contribution / submission to law making process especially in laws that affect women adversely and have a bearing on gender equality in South Africa.
The department can be contacted on this email address: lesego@cge.org.za or alternatively, you can call your nearest CGE provincial office and make an appointment with the legal officer based there, if you need to discuss a gender related complaint. Contacts of CGE offices are on this website.
Legislative Submissions
- 1. INDEPENDENT MUNICIPAL DEMARCATION AUTHORITY BILL revised Submission - AUGUST 2023
- 2. Submission - Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill - MARCH 2024
- 3. Submission - Correctional Services Amendment Bill - 10 November 2023
- 4. Submission - Dept of Home Affairs - White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration, and Refugee Protection - February 2024
- 5. Submission - Draft DFFE National Climate Change Gender Action Plan - June 2024
- 6. Submission - Submission - Draft National Standards on Arrest and Treatment of an Arrested Person - June 2024
- 7. Submission - Draft Regulations on Proposed Numerical Sector Targe ts - March 2024
- 8. Submission - Draft Submissions Local Governmemt General Laws Amendnment Bill - June 2024
- 9. Submission - GBVF Council Bill - May 2024
- 10. Submission - General Comment No. 27 on Childrens Rights to Access to Justice and Effective Remedies - August 2024
- 11. Submission - Implementation of UN Rights of Persons with Disabilities - December 2024
- 12. Submission - Independent Police Investigative Directorate Amendment Bill - December 2023
- 13. Submission - Judicial Matters Amendment Bill 2024 - September 2024
- 14. Submission - Local Government Municipal Structures Amendment Bill - June 2024
- 15. Submission - Marriage Bill - December 2024
- 16. Submission - National Minimum Wage Investigation - September 2024
- 17. Submission - Nursing Regulations - November 2024
- 18. Submission - OHCHR's Report on Intersex Persons - November 2024
- 19. Submission - Proposed draft by-law for Township Economies - June 2024
- 20. Submission - Public Service Commission Bill - February 2024
- 21. Submission - SALRC Discussion Paper 160 - Review of Aspects of Matrimonial Law - December 2023
- 22. Submission - Second Amendment of Immigration Regulations - March 2024
- 23. Submission - Traditional Health Practitioners Regulations - September 2024
- 24. Submission - UN Resolution on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - August 2024
- 25. Submission (KZN) - Climate Change Bill - March 2024
- 26. Submission on Amendment to Constitution of the Western Cape (Amended BS) - June 2023
- 27. Submission on Divorce Amendment Bill - September 2023
- 28. Submission on Draft Policy on Women in Sport - June 2023
- 29. Submission on Intergovermental Monitoring, Support and Intervention Bill - August 2023
- 30. Submission on Marriage Bill - August 2023
- 31. Submission on National Health Bill - September 2023
- 32. Submission on National Identification and Registration Bill - June 2023
- 33. Submission on National Prosecuting Authority Amendment Bill - September 2023
- 34. Submission- Draft Policy on Persons with Disabilities - December 2023
- 35. Submission - Immigration Amendment Bill - November 2023
- 36. Submissons on Public Service Commission Bill (Edited BS) - June 2023