D-Day for ANC to hand over outstanding cadre deployment documents
The DA says the ANC has until the end of Monday to hand over the outstanding documents related to its cadre deployment committee meetings dating back to January 2013.
Should the ANC fail to do so, the DA will launch a contempt of court application.
Last week, the ruling party handed the DA its cadre deployment documents per the Constitutional Court order.
However, the DA says the ANC failed to include President Cyril Ramaphosa’s emails and WhatsApps, even though he was the committee’s chairperson, and it failed to provide a list of all decisions the committee took.
"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,” DA leader John Steenhuisen said on Friday.
"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.
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