The Department of Justice & Constitutional Development invites suitably qualified and fit and proper persons to apply for the vacant offices of the sheriffs in the high and lower courts in various areas:
A. THE HIGH AND LOWER COURTS
EASTERN CAPE:
- • Cradock • Hofmeyr • Maclear • Pearston • Port Elizabeth South (vacant with effect 7 August 2015) • Venterstad, Steynsburg and Burgersdorp (vacant with effect 20 April 2016)
FREE STATE:
- • Botshabelo and Thaba’Nchu • Clocolan, Marquard and Senekal (including the service area of Paul Roux) • Excelsior (including the service area of Tweespruit) and Ladybrand • Koppies • Virginia (vacant with effect 11 September 2015) • Vrede (including the service area of Memel) and Warden
GAUTENG:
- • Oberholzer (excluding the service area of Fochville)
KWAZULU NATAL:
- • Impendle • Msinga (vacant with effect 19 November 2015 and excludes the service areas of Helpmekaar and Rorkes Drift)
LIMPOPO: • Seshego
NORTH WEST:
- • Delareyville and Sannieshof High and Lower Court and Ottosdal High Court (excluding the service area of Ottosdal Lower Court) • Ganyesa • Schweizer Reneke • Taung (including the service area of Pampierstad but excluding Reivillo) • Wolmaranstad
NORTHERN CAPE:
- • Calvinia • Carnarvon and Victoria West • Hay/ Griekwastad, Hopetown and Herbert/Douglas •Kenhardt (including the service area of Pofadder) • Kudumane • Phillipstown (including the service area of Petrusville) • Richmond • Springbok (includes the service area of Garies and Port Nolloth) • Sutherland, Williston and Fraserburg
WESTERN CAPE:
- • Paarl • Montagu • Murraysburg
B. THE LOWER COURTS
- EASTERN CAPE: • Albany (Grahamstown)
C. THE HIGH COURTS
- EASTERN CAPE: • Middelburg • Somerset East • East London (Vacant with effect on 3 May 2016) FREE STATE: • Brandfort
- KWAZULU NATAL: • Babanango
- LIMPOPO: • Nebo • Thabazimbi
- MPUMALANGA: • White River • Highveld Ridge/Evander
- NORTH WEST: • Ventersdorp • Potchefstroom
- NORTHERN CAPE • Postmasburg (including the service area of Olifantshoek)
- WESTERN CAPE • Caledon • Grabouw
It is important to note that where there is more than one area advertised together as a vacant office for the appointment of a single sheriff that the successful applicant will be required to establish a service point in the neighbouring area(s) in order to ensure access to justice for the affected communities.
Requirements for holding an office of sheriff:
Applicants must be: a South African citizen or has been lawfully admitted to the Republic for permanent residence and is ordinarily resident in the Republic; a fit and proper person; able to demonstrate the financial and other ability required to establish and operate a sheriff’s office; is competent to conduct the business of sheriff and has at least –
- An appropriate post grade 12 qualification (any certificate and/or degree obtained from a recognized Tertiary or Higher Learning Institution that enhances the knowledge of an applicant in the business of a sheriff and/ or in legal and court processes that was duly obtained by the Applicant after the completion of a grade 12 certificate will be considered an appropriate post grade 12 qualification).
- An understanding of civil law.
- Knowledge and an understanding of the relevant aspects of the Constitution of South Africa, Insolvency Act, Magistrates’ Court Act, State Liability Act, Prescription Act, Criminal Procedure Act, Sheriffs Act, Security by Means of Movable Property Act, Labour Relations Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Maintenance Act, Rental Housing Act, National Credit Act, Consumer Protection Act, Superior Courts Act, Rules of Superior and Lower Courts, Rules of the Supreme Court of Appeal.
A sheriff is not an employee of the Department and generates his/her income from the service and the execution of court documents in terms of the prescribed tariffs. The applicant must demonstrate the potential ability to establish and operate an office to conduct business relating to the service of summonses and other court processes; the execution of warrants of execution and ejectment interdicts and garnishee orders; the making of inventories on the processing of warrants of execution; the provision of returns of service; the holding of execution auctions; and the keeping of a trust account of a sheriff. A person appointed as a sheriff may not perform or engage in any remunerative work outside the office of a sheriff without the approval of the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services. The person appointed as sheriff cannot perform the functions of a sheriff unless he/she has been issued with a Fidelity Fund Certificate, issued by the South African Board for Sheriffs. Preference will be given to applicants whose appointments will promote equitable demographic representation and inclusiveness by race, gender, disability or any of the constitutionally recognized grounds
Applications must be addressed to the Secretariat of the relevant Provincial Advisory Committee:
• Eastern Cape: Mrs A Herselman: Private Bag X3904, North End, Port Elizabeth, 6056 or c/o Govan Mbeki and De Villiers Street, Room 1.73, North End, Port Elizabeth, 6056 (anherselman@justice.gov.za)
• Free State: Ms S Britz: Private Bag X20578, Bloemfontein, 9300 or 53 Charlotte Maxeke Street, Colonial Building, Bloemfontein, 9300 (sbritz@justice.gov.za)
• KwaZulu Natal: Ms M Mabaso: Private Bag X54372, Durban, 4000 or 2 Devonshire Place, c/o Devonshire and Anton Lembede Streets, Durban, 4000 (mmabaso@justice.gov.za)
• Limpopo: Mr K Motsei: Private Bag X9526, Polokwane, 0700 or 92 Bok Street, Polokwane, 0700 (mkgosiemang@justice.gov.za)
• Mpumalanga: Mr P Mthimunye: Private Bag X11249, Nelspruit, 1200 or 24 Brown Street, Nelspruit, 1200 (pmthimunye@justice.gov.za)
• Northern Cape: Mr R Motlekar: Private Bag X6106, Kimberley, 8300 or 8th Floor, New Public Buildings, c/o Stead and Knight Streets, Kimberley, 8300 (rmotlekar@justice.gov.za)
• North West: Ms W Jacobs: Private Bag X2033, Mmabatho, 2735 or 22 Molopo Road, Ayob Building, Mafikeng, 2745 (wjacobs@justice.gov.za)
• Western Cape: Ms S Samaai: Private Bag X9171, Cape Town, 8000 or Mezzanine Floor, Plein Park Building, Plein Street, Cape Town, 8001 (ssamaai@justice.gov.za)
Applications that are not completed correctly and in line with the requirements listed above will not be considered. The Minister of Justice & Correctional Services reserves the right not to fill a sheriff’s office that has herein been advertised as a vacant sheriff’s office. Further, should you not receive an invitation within three (3) months to attend an interview herein then it can be deemed that your application was not successful
Applications must be submitted on Form 1 (J743- Download here)
Enquiries: Ms Joy van der Heyde (021) 462 5471 jvanderheyde@justice.gov.za
Closing date: 01 September 2015
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