Cadre deployment: DA to file contempt application against ANC
The DA says it will file a contempt of court application against the ANC in the ongoing battle over cadre deployment.
DA leader John Steenhuisen says they want missing copies of the emails and WhatsApps during President Cyril Ramaphosa's tenure as the chairman of the committee.
The ANC was ordered by the Constitutional Court to submit its cadre deployment documents to the DA following a lengthy legal battle.
Briefing the media in Cape Town on Friday, Steenhuisen said the ANC failed to include Ramaphosa’s own emails and WhatsApps in the material it handed over to the DA.
"The ANC extensively redacted the documents despite not being entitled to do so by the court order. They have provided no information for a five-year period during which Ramaphosa was the cadre deployment committee chairperson. The ANC also failed to mention this in their court papers.
"They failed to provide a list of all decisions taken by the cadre deployment committee, as ordered by the court; they impermissibly restricted communication disseminated during the year 2020.
"They furnished illegible documents; they destroyed documents whilst the matter was pending before the court."
The DA believes President Ramaphosa ultimately bears responsibility for the operations but claims he failed to depose an affidavit confirming he has no documents or information for this period.
"They failed to provide minutes that were not formally adopted, even though the court order obliges the party to hand over all relevant information," Steenhuisen said.
"The ANC also failed to provide any information for the period between 2013 and 2018, despite the court ordering that it must include this period when Ramaphosa was cadre chairman.
"As we point out in our letter that the PAIA request “is not limited to minutes of committee meetings but extends to all information on the processes and decisions of the committee during the period 2013-2021…”
On Thursday, the ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula told supporters the party's cadre deployment is constitutional as it aims to bring about transformation.
"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."
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