Johnathan Paoli
The DA has declared its intention to go to court in order to force President Cyril Ramaphosa to make public the performance assessments of his ministers.
The opposition party previously instituted a Promotion to Access for Information application, which was subsequently turned down, a decision which the party said it would be appealing.
The performance agreements President Ramaphosa signed with his ministers in 2020 are published on the government’s website. But Ramaphosa was quoted this week saying he has no intention of making the assessments known to the public.
DA leader John Steenhuisen said Ramaphosa is censoring the public from measuring the performance of their government, reneging on his promises and dodging transparency.
“As the South African people continue to suffer under the failure and collapse of government at the hands of the ANC, it is only fitting that the people be allowed to judge the performance, or
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