IOS2601 Assignment 1 Semester 2 2025 - DUE 10 September 2025

IOS2601 Assignment 1 Semester 2 2025 - DUE 10 September 2025 ASSIGNMENT 01: Jaga v Dönges 1950 (4) SA 653 (A) (a) Brief facts (6) • Parties and forum. This was an appeal to the Appellate Division in Jaga v Dönges, NO and Another; Bhana v Dönges, NO and Another. The respondents included the Minister of the Interior (Dönges) and the Commissioner of Police. • Underlying conviction. Jaga and Bhana pleaded guilty in a magistrates’ court to contravening s 113 of the Transvaal Gold Law 35 of 1908, by unlawfully purchasing unwrought gold from a police “trap” (a native detective). They bought gold valued at £90 15s 2d for £30 and even tested it with acid before purchase. • Sentence imposed. Each was fined £50 or three months imprisonment with hard labour, plus a further three months’ imprisonment suspended for three years on condition they were not convicte