Assignment 1 Semester 2 2025
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Due Date: 10 September 2025
QUESTION 1
The Jaga v Dönges 1950 (4) SA 653 (A), which was delivered at the height of
apartheid, remains important for the interpretation of statutes after the democratic
transformation. Kindly read the case and answer the following questions.
(a) BRIEFLY PROVIDE facts of the Jaga case.
In the case of Jaga v Dönges 1950 (4) SA 653 (A), the appellant, Jaga, was convicted in the
early 1950s for selling unwrought gold in contravention of legislation governing precious
metals. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, but the sentence was suspended
for three years. Under section 22 of the General Law Amendment Act 22 of 1913, any
person sentenced to imprisonment for an offence relating to the sale of unwrought precious
metals could be declared an undesirable inhabitant of the Union and deported.
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