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section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand rand or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year.

Increased penalties for offences committed in certain circumstances.

58. Whenever any person is convicted of an offence which is proved to have been committed by way of protest against any law or in support of any campaign against any law or in support of any campaign for the repeal or modification of any law or for the variation or limitation of the application or administration of any law, the court convicting him may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law, sentence him to a fine not exceeding three thousand rand or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Incitement, etc., to commit an offence with certain objects.

59. Any person who—

(a)

in any manner whatsoever advises, encourages, incites, commands, aids or procures any other person or persons in general; or

(b)

uses any language or does any act or thing calculated to cause any person or persons in general,

to commit an offence by way of protest against any law or in support of any campaign against any law or in support of any campaign for the repeal or modification of any law or for the variation or limitation of the application or administration of any law, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five thousand rand or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Prohibition of offer or acceptance of financial or other assistance for organized resistance against laws of Republic.

60. (1) Any person who solicits, accepts or receives from any person or body of persons, whether within or outside the Republic, or who offers or gives to any person or body of persons any money or other article for the purpose of—

(a)

assisting any campaign (conducted by means of any unlawful act or omission or the threat of such act or omission or by means which include or necessitate such act or omission or such threat) against any law, or against the application or administration of any law; or

(b)

enabling or assisting any person to commit any offence by way of protest against any law or in support of any campaign against any law or in support of any campaign for the repeal or modification of any law or for the variation or limitation of the application or administration of any law; or

(c)

unlawfully assisting any person who has committed any offence referred to in paragraph (b),

shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to the penalties prescribed in section 59.

(2) The court convicting any person for receiving or accepting any money or other article for any purpose referred to in subsection (1) shall, in addition to any penalty which it may lawfully impose, declare that money or that article forfeit to the State if such money or article is found in the possession or under the control of the person convicted, or declare so much of that money or article as was found in possession or under the control of the said person to be so forfeit,

Recovery of fines imposed in terms of section 58, 59 or 60. 61. (1) Whenever an offender has been sentenced in terms of section 58, 59 or 60 to pay a fine, the court which passed the sentence shall, unless the fine has been paid within forty-eight hours of its having become payable, and unless the court is satisfied that the offender does not possess any movable or immovable property, issue a warrant addressed to the sheriff or messenger of the court authorizing him to levy the amount of that fine as well as the costs and expenses of the said warrant and of the attachment and sale thereunder. by attachment and sale of any