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The Democratic Alliance said it has won another historic battle in its ongoing "law-fare campaign" to abolish ANC cadre deployment corruption in South Africa.
On Monday, the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed an application by the ANC to appeal an earlier High Court judgment ordering it to release its cadre deployment records to the opposition party.
The DA had used the Promotion of Access to Information Act in its long-running battle to gain access to the governing party’s records.
MP, Dr Leon Schreiber, said the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the ANC to hand over complete records of its national cadre deployment committee to them within five days.
He said the judges said there would be no reasonable prospects of success and “no compelling reason why an appeal should be heard.”
Schreiber said the Appeals Court ruling vindicates their long-held view that it is illegal for the ANC to hide the way in which it interferes in appointments to government departments, municipalities, and state-owned enterprises.
"Today's ruling means that the ANC has five working days to hand over all of the records requested by the DA, including meeting minutes, CVs, email correspondence, and Whatsapp conversations of the cadre deployment committee dating back to 1 January 2013, when President Cyril Ramaphosa became cadre deployment chairman in Jacob Zuma's administration."
"The DA is currently also awaiting a ruling in our second court application, where we have asked the Pretoria High Court to declare ANC cadre deployment unconstitutional and unlawful," Schreiber said.
