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DA leader John Steenhuisen has accused the ANC of failing to comply with a recent ConCourt order to submit full records of the meetings and decisions of its cadre deployment committee dating back from 2013 to 2021.
According to Steenhuisen the DA had sent a letter of demand to the ANC to comply with the ConCourt judgment.
“If they do not adhere to this demand, we are going to be seeking a contempt of court ruling that includes prison time aimed specifically at the secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula, who has acted on behalf of the ANC.”
DA Member of Parliament (MP) Leon Schreiber listed on the briefing how the ANC’s deployment committee interfered in non-political appointments.
“In October 2019, the director-general for youth and persons with disabilities. In January 2020, the committee interfered with the director-general and head of the National School of Government.”
The party said Mbalula has until Saturday to comply with the court and furnish it with the complete record.
“He ultimately bears responsibility for its operations but fails to depose an affidavit confirming he has no documents or information for this period.”
The ANC has blamed its inability to make full disclosure of the records required on a computer that mysteriously crashed.
Steenhuisen said the DA will also appeal the North Gauteng High Court decision that dismissed its application to have the ANC’s cadre deployment policy declared unlawful and unconstitutional.
“The Democratic Alliance (DA) wants the African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula jailed for failing to provide the party’s full deployment committee records as ordered by the Constitutional Court,” Steenhuise said adding that the ANC also failed to include President Cyril Ramaphosa’s emails from his time as chairperson of the deployment committee.
Ramaphosa was one of the recipients of emails and WhatsApp messages in question, but these were not provided by the ANC, he said.
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