CRW2602 EXAM PACK

QUESTION 1 (a) “Terrorist activities” prohibited in section 1 of the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities Act 33 of 2004 may consist of any act which causes serious risk to the health or safety of the public. (b) “Terrorist activities” as in the above-mentioned Act must be performed with a defined culpability. (c) The interests protected by the crime of terrorism are the safety and security of the Republic, its institutions and people. (1) Only statement (a) is correct. (2) Only statement (b) is correct. (3) Only statement (c) is correct. (4) Only statements (a) and (c) are correct. (5) All these statements are correct. QUESTION 2 (a) For the crime of statutory perjury, the statements must be made in writing in the course of legal proceedings. (b) A legal representative, who, in the course of argument, makes a false declaration to the court, can be charged with common law perjury. (c) If X persuades Y, a witness in a trial, to give false evidence in court, X may be convicted of the crime of defeating or obstructing the course of justice. (1) Only statement (a) is correct. (2) Only statement (b) is correct. (3) Only statement (c) is correct. (4) Only statements (a) and (b) are correct. (5) Only statements (b) and (c) are correct. QUESTION 3 (a) X can be convicted of the offence of corruption created in section 3 of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act 12 of 2004 if he had merely agreed to accept gratification unlawfully in the future. (b) X can be convicted of corruption even if the person to whom he had offered the benefit was a police trap who had no intention of keeping the benefit for himself. (c) The crime of corruption is completed only once the benefit is handed over. (1) Only statement (a) is correct