DA now wants provincial cadre deployment records
The DA has said it is on course to file a Promotion of Access to Information Act (Paia) application to obtain and ‘expose all minutes and records’ from the ANC’s nine provinces and regional cadre deployment committees.
DA Public Service & Administration Shadow Minister Leon Schreiber said a minute in the documents provided by the ANC was the ‘smoking gun’ that confirmed the ‘existence of additional cadre deployment committees’ beyond the national committee that was chaired by then Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.
A Business Day report says the particular minute from a meeting held at the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in March 2019 read: ‘Need to reconcile the work of the committee and the provincial deployment committees. Must meet with the provincial deployment committees (sic).’
Schreiber said: ‘Using the precedent created in the DA’s Constitutional Court victory, which ordered the ANC to hand over complete records of its national cadre deployment committee, we will now pursue the same records from provincial and regional committees following evidence from the State Capture Commission, and a series of documents leaked to the DA which confirm the existence of these committees across provincial and municipal party structures. The DA will submit a fresh Paia application to the ANC to obtain meeting minutes, a list of decisions, WhatsApp conversations, email threads, CVs and all other documents relevant to the work of all regional and provincial cadre deployment committees dating back to 1 January 2013, when Ramaphosa became the national chair of this political racketeering syndicate.’
He said it was in the public interest to see how the ANC interfered in public sector appointments.
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