Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 4. 21st March 1973
Fines, Imprisonment, Whipping
Fines, Imprisonment, Whipping.
Mrs Suzman, said the 1953 Act laid down heavy penalties whenever a person was convicted of an offense which was proved to have been committed by way of protest, or in support of any campaign against any "law", the repeal or modification of any law, or the variation or limitations of the application of any law. The penalties were: A fine not exceeding R300, or imprisonment not exceeding three years, or a whipping not exceeding ten strokes, or any two of these together.