Johnathan Paoli
The High Court in Pretoria has dismissed the DA’s application to have the ruling party’s cadre deployment policy declared unconstitutional.
The case was previously argued before a full bench of judges in January, where the DA argued the policy allowed corruption to thrive and facilitated the looting of state coffers.
On Monday, the ANC handed its cadre deployment records to the DA following an order by the Constitutional Court.
Earlier, a quorum of eight justices dismissed ANC’s application to not hand over documents relating to the deployment of cadres from the year 2013 with costs, claiming that the appeal was “not in the interest of justice to hear the matter”.
The access application to ANC deployment records was brought by DA MP Leon Schreiber in 2021 in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA).
DA leader, John Steenhuisen, who was in court on Wednesday morning,
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