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The Constitution and the accountability mechanisms of the Prosecutor's Office in South Africa. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, created a single National Prosecutor's Office called the NPA, which is controlled by the National Prosecutor's Office Act (Act No. 32 of 1998). Article 179(2) of the Constitution provides that the NPA has the power to initiate criminal proceedings on behalf of the State, to carry out all necessary functions related to the initiation of criminal proceedings and to interrupt criminal proceedings. Parliament passed the National Prosecution Act 1998 to give effect to the provision of s179 of the Constitution. This is evident in the National Director of Public Prosecutions case against Zuma. In this case the weight was given in the main interpretation of Article 179 of the Constitution. The SCA found that this section did not require that the NDPP should invite Mr. Zuma to state why he should not have been prosecuted before charging him, and to provide him with a full explanation of why it had previously been decided not to prosecute and not followed up.. This assignment will concern the composition or structure of the prosecutor's office called the NPA. From now on, emphasis will be placed on the NPA's obligation to be responsible for its own functions and to take responsibility for them. It will also address those who can hold the NPA constitutionally responsible if it fails to carry out its assigned tasks. Finally, in this assignment I will provide recommendations on how to address the problems the NPA is experiencing. It is necessary to write about the NPA, because it is a very important institution, if the functions and responsibilities of the NPA are not... .half of the document ......recommendations on how to improve the performance of the justice system South African criminal justice.> Improve the way the system is implemented,>Invest more energy in crime expectations,>To gain a broader combined understanding of how to extend success in fighting crime,>teach government bodies the importance of criminal justice system,> remove all corrupt members in a system judicial system and> impose severe punishments on members of the criminal justice system who behave badly, so much so that they are not allowed to work in any public sector. With the help of competent members of the National Prosecutor's Office we can fight injustice, corruption and inequality and build a better criminal justice system that is independent, corrupt-free and does not favor anyone regardless of their position in the legal system.