Johnathan Paoli
The South Gauteng High court has ruled in favour of the DA’s urgent application to declare the ANC guilty of contempt of court over its failure to hand over complete cadre records.
In a ruling handed down on Wednesday in Johannesburg, the court found the ANC as well as its secretary-general Fikile April Mbalula, guilty of contempt of court.
The DA welcomed the judgement, with Shadow Minister of Public Service and Administration Leon Schreiber saying that his party approached the court on an urgent basis following the ANC allegedly redacted, destroyed and withheld records of its cadre deployment committee dating back to 1 January 2013, when President Cyril Ramaphosa became its chairman.
“The ruling confirms beyond all doubt that the ANC is a lawless criminal syndicate that is prepared to trigger a constitutional crisis to hide the fact that its corrupt cadre deployment committee is the root cause
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