The Constitutional Court has ordered President Cyril Ramaphosa to pay the costs in an application appealing a High Court ruling on the disclosure of records of decisions relating to the review of Cabinet changes during Jacob Zuma’s presidential term.
The matter dates back to 2017 when the DA petitioned the Gauteng High Court after Zuma’s infamous ‘midnight Cabinet reshuffle’ in which then Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, were fired.
The DA, through a mechanism called Rule 53, challenged the constitutional validity of the reshuffle, arguing at the time that, it sought, among other measures, the disclosure of the record of Zuma’s decision.
However, after Ramaphosa was appointed, the Presidency took the matter to the country’s highest court to clarify whether Rule 53 was applicable when it came to executive decisions.
In a majority judgment penned and handed down by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng Wednesday, Ramaphosa’s application
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