Mampara of the week: Luwellyn Landers

Ramming it through

You've got to hand it to the ANC's Luwellyn Landers. He had us going with that line about amending the Protection of Information Bill to meet demands for the protection of whistle-blowers.

Then, just as the country was lulled into a false sense of security, he announced that there would be no protection for media who published classified documents which expose corruption. They would go to jail and so would anyone else publishing classified information.

Keeping a straight face, he added that there was no "unjustifiable constraint on media freedom or freedom of expression" in the bill. Someone protect our democracy from this Mampara.