Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri and Alec Erwin, telecommunications ministers one and two (as the DA's Dene Smuts calls them, according to the Financial Mail), could use a few civics lessons.

Last time I checked, private citizens of a country were required to obey the law, even if they don't know what the law is. It follows, therefore, that Erwin risks unwittingly committing any number of crimes, since he doesn't seem to know what law Matsepe-Casaburri's department wrote and got parliament to pass.