Any person who, being on service:
| (a) |
shamefully abandons or surrenders or induces or compels any other person on service shamefully to abandon or surrender any garrison, place, post, guard, aircraft or vessel which it was the duty of such person or, as the case may be, such other person to defend; |
| (b) |
treacherously communicates with or gives intelligence to the enemy; |
| (c) |
treacherously makes known the parole, watchword or countersign to any person not entitled to receive it or treacherously gives a parole, watchword or countersign different from what he received; |
| (d) |
goes over to the enemy; |
| (e) |
having been made a prisoner of war, voluntarily serves with or aids the enemy; |
| (f) |
gives to the enemy or assists the enemy to acquire arms or ammunition or any material or equipment; |
| (g) |
knowingly commits any act calculated to imperil the success or safety of the South African Defence Force or any forces co-operating with the South African Defence Force or any part of any such forces; or |
| (h) |
conspires with any other person to mutiny or cause mutiny in the South African Defence Force or joins in any such mutiny, |
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 30 years.
[Section 4 amended by section 4 of Act No. 105 of 1997]
Statistics Act, 1999
