ANC given 30 days to release cadre deployment files from provinces, municipalities
The DA has given the ANC 30 days to submit documents from cadre deployment meetings in all the provinces governed by the ANC, including dozens of municipalities.
Last week, the ANC was ordered by the Constitutional Court to submit its cadre deployment documents to the DA following a lengthy legal battle.
The party unveiled an election billboard in Bedfordview on the East Rand on Tuesday, vowing to outlaw cadre deployment.
DA MP Leon Schreiber says they will use the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to obtain the WhatsApp conversations, email threads, and CVs dating back from January 2013.
President Cyril Ramaphosa was the chairman of the cadre deployment committee at the time.
"In terms of PAIA, the ANC has 30 days to comply with the DA’s application, which is based on the exact same rationale that led to our Constitutional Court victory. If the ANC fails to comply, the DA will see them back in court in 30 days.
"Using the precedent created in the DA’s Constitutional Court victory, which ordered the ANC to hand over complete records of its national cadre deployment committee, we will now pursue the same records from provincial and regional committees."
The party says it is in possession of a set of minutes entitled “deployment committee meeting” dated 2 August 2023 from a regional deployment committee meeting in the North West.
"The minute contains evidence of unlawful interference with administrative appointments in the Ratlou, Tswaing, Kagisano-Molopo, Kgetlengrivier, Madibeng, Maquassi Hills, Taung municipalities, and the provincial Department of Community Safety and Transport.
"A letter to “municipal managers, all directors and all senior managers” in municipalities in the ANC’s Chris Hani region of the Eastern Cape, directing them to meet with the regional committee and emphasising that “no apologies will be [accepted].”
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