Cadre deployment is about transformation - Mbalula
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the party's cadre deployment is constitutional as it aims to bring about transformation.
The party was compelled to submit its cadre deployment documents to the DA following a lengthy legal battle.
The court directed the governing party to hand over complete meeting minutes, email correspondence, WhatsApp conversations, CVs and all other relevant documentation dating back from 2013.
On Wednesday, the High Court in Pretoria dismissed the DA's application to have the ANC's cadre deployment policy declared unconstitutional.
Addressing the media in Durban on Thursday, Mbalula said the ANC remains on track to implement its policies.
"The key elements of ANC Cadre Policy and Deployment Strategy are summarised in the 1997 policy document, including recruitment, education and training, deployment and redeployment, promotion, accountability, and reservation of cadres."
"These key elements of our Cadre Policy and Deployment have guided the implementation of our national democratic transformation agenda, also referred to as the National Democratic Revolution – the total transformation of our country into a non-racial, non-sexist, united, democratic and prosperous society."
Mbalula accused the DA of launching “an ideological offensive to distort ANC cadre deployment policy”.
"There has also been a concerted effort by the anti-transformation forces to use the courts in their fight to slow down, stop or reverse the transformation agenda by trying to impose a conservative interpretation of the constitution and law of our republic.
"The DA’s spin-doctors and ideologues have invested heavily in churning out the false narrative that the policy and practice of cadre policy and deployment is an aberration in a democracy and is therefore unlawful and unconstitutional."
Mbalula was speaking ahead of the party's manifesto launch in Durban on Saturday.
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