1.   Suggesting that harsher penalties should be introduced for tax evasion, Menem said the most serious offenders should be jailed.

2.   The laws require that repeat offenders be jailed even for trivial crimes and, according to human-rights campaigners, target the kind of offenses committed by Aborigines.

3.   Third-time offenders can be jailed for six months.

4.   At present, first-time drug addicts are placed in minimum security rehabilitation centers while repeat offenders are jailed.

5.   If the prayer meeting is found unlawful, offenders can be jailed for up to six months.

6.   Offenders could be jailed for up to three months, it added.

7.   Strikes, often called by the African National Congress, were illegal during decades of white-minority rule and the government often jailed offenders.

8.   The army has usually opted for a low-key response, jailing offenders for a few days or weeks, then transferring them out of the line of fire.

9.   The government has declared an indefinite ban on open burning and warned that offenders could be jailed for five years.

10.   The government has banned open burning and warned that offenders could be jailed for five years.