Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour of South Africa

Cape Town Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has been cleared of charges that he received a gift of a motor car and failed to declare this gift, thus breaching Parliament's code of ethics.

It was alleged that Balfour had bought two luxury VW Touareg cars and that one was paid for by a company that was connected to Bosasa, a major contractor of services to the correctional services department.

Balfour said he would be speaking to the country's football authorities on Thursday.

Earlier this month, Balfour was denied bail after being charged with the murders (and one count of home invasion) of the Oscar winner's brother, Jason Hudson;", "MTV.

Referring specifically to interviews granted to "selected media" by Cronje since his appearance at the King commission of inquiry as well as his reported plans to publish a book on his involvement on the affair, Balfour said "it should be noted that the work of the Commission has not yet been finalised.

South African sports minister Ngconde Balfour is adamant that South Africa's tour of Zimbabwe next month should go ahead as planned.

Balfour said both the African Union and the Commonwealth have not expressed themselves on the issue of sanctions against Zimbabwe nor has the government of this country.

Balfour was born in the Eastern Cape and completed his schooling at Jabavu High School in the town of Alice.

Balfour has been a South African Member of Parliament since 1996 and was appointed as Minister of Correctional Services on 29 April 2004.

Following the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki in September 2008, Balfour was one of ten ministers who submitted their resignations on September 23, although it was subsequently announced that he might be willing to remain in his post.

During the apartheid regime, Balfour was a political detainee and a guest of the prison system he now runs.

You see, Balfour is a former student of Victoria University and a star guest at the birthday bash.

And in his efforts to make sure that 'bastards' aren't running the shop, Ngconde Balfour has given the provincial government and the institution's management a week to convince him why the prison should not be completely closed down.

The Department of Correctional Services is to introduce compulsory rehabilitation programmes soon, Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour said on Tuesday.

Balfour said the department will also complete its comprehensive HIV/Aids prevalence survey among inmates and staff members this year.

At an earlier briefing on Tuesday, Balfour said the survey will help introduce a holistic approach to address the impact and effect of HIV/Aids in prisons and among staff members.

PARLIAMENT - Correctional services minister Ngconde Balfour has not breached Parliaments code of ethics, the National Assemblys ethics committee said on Thursday.

PRETORIA - Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour on Tuesday accepted a memorandum detailing the effects of crime on South Africans.

JOHANNESBURG - The National Department of Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has called on leaders and commentators on correctional services to refrain from demoralising his hard-working officials.

Balfour said he would ask ASA to meet him in order to ensure that athletes were not put at a disadvantaged as they prepared for the 2004 Olympic Games.

Launching the campaign at the Zonderwater Correctional Center on Monday, Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said the department was prompted to introduce the campaign after realising that most prison escapes occurs during the festive season.

Balfour was expected to stay in hospital for at least 48 hours for further tests and to monitor his condition.

Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour is threatening to sue the unknown writer of a letter allegedly sent to Parliament over his VW Touraeg.

Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has dismissed suggestions he failed to disclose to Parliament a car received as a "gift.

var PageContent= ' Johannesburg - The number of violent crime offenders were frustrating attempts to ease overcrowding in prisons, Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said on Friday.

Speaking during his department\'s budget vote debate in the National Assembly, Balfour said the surge in violent crimes posed a serious threat to initiatives intended to reduce overcrowding in prisons.

Balfour said the initiatives had contributed to a steady decrease in prison overcrowding.

Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said on Friday.

Balfour was to visit Pretorias C-Max Prison to assure himself about the security and the conditions under which the remaining accused were being kept.

Balfour said the two had escaped under the polices watch, not that of his department.

There is not much in it really, no recommendations, nothing much," Balfour said after handing the King Commission's interim report to South African cricket boss Ali Bacher and International Cricket Council chief executive David Richards.

We view your reluctance to do so in a rather serious light and believe that it does not serve the best interest of cricket," South African Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour said in a letter to ICC.

After Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour was quoted making disparaging remarks about him -- such as "Jacques Kallis means nothing to me" -- the white player found himself thrust into a damaging race row.

Who is Jacques Kallis? Jacques Kallis means nothing to me," Balfour is quoted as saying.

they must take the pressure like we had to in the struggle," Balfour is quoted as saying.

After sports minister Ngconde Balfour was quoted making disparaging remarks about him — such as “Jacques Kallis means nothing to me” — the White player found himself thrust into a damaging race row, little more than two months before South Africa host the World Cup.

Balfour has tried to distance himself from the comments and said no official minutes were taken at the meeting.

Balfour says quotas are a necessary step towards achieving equality in the sports-mad country, which was welcomed back into international competition after free elections in 1994 ended years in the sporting wilderness of anti-Apartheid sanctions.

Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has defended the former national commissioner of the department, Linda Mti, saying allegations of improper conduct against him should be rejected.

Speaking during the department's budget vote debate in the National Assembly on Friday, Balfour said the allegations against Mti were unfounded.

However, Balfour said Mti's hands were clean.

Balfour said Peterson, a former social worker, was the right man for the job.