Background

The Business Against Crime movement was established in 1995 following a request by the then President Nelson Mandela to assist Government in the combating of crime.

At National, Provincial and Regional levels BAC's are registered as Section 21 companies.

Frontline Leadership Development Programme for SAPS Management hosted by BAC Zululand

In the memorandum of association of BAC Zululand the main business is recorded as that of an association between business, the community, government and non-government organisations to pro-actively combat crime.  Following from the main purpose our mission is to have an effective, orderly, criminal justice system in a peaceful prosperous environment that is investor friendly and opportunity driven. 

Business Against Crime operates within the Integrated Criminal Justice system, which consists of the SAPS, Justice Department, Correctional Services and the Department of Welfare and Population Development.  It is by liaising and operating within the IJS system that BAC makes a difference on the long term.  The purpose of our involvement is to have a sustained service delivery improvement within all four departments but focusing on the medium term on the SAPS and the Justice Department.  Our overriding objective is to improve the combating of crime at all levels and within all departments.  Because of the complexity of the IJS system it can never be a quick fix but rather a continuous positive involvement with a view to achieving our objectives.  In order to assess whether BAC is making a difference and to try and quantify such successes would obviously be a daunting task and by whatever means an arbitrary one. 

At national level BAC South Africa is liaising directly with ministerial committees and is giving valuable input to the various committees at Director-General level.  At Provincial level there is a continuous liaison between the Provincial authorities within the IJS and Business Against Crime.  In the BAC Zululand region the same interaction takes place.