Panicked ANC runs to Constitutional Court to delay release of its dirty cadre secrets
10 September 2023
The ANC has descended into full-blown panic as it tries to delay the inevitable release of its cadre deployment secrets to the people of South Africa.
Last week, the DA scored yet another victory in our ongoing quest to expose the ANC’s dirty cadre deployment secrets when the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissed the ANC’s attempt to appeal two earlier rulings by the Johannesburg High Court. Like the High Court, the SCA dismissed the ANC’s bid with a costs order and without even granting leave to appeal, because “there are no reasonable prospects of success in an appeal and there is no other compelling reason why an appeal should be heard.”
Out of sheer panic to delay the public release of its dirty secrets, the ANC has now run to the Constitutional Court. On Friday, the DA received a letter from the ANC’s attorneys indicating that the party will appeal this case to the Constitutional Court.
Like all of the ANC’s previous attempts, this final court bid is doomed to fail. There simply exists no legal grounds for the ANC to keep its cadre deployment records secret, because the entire reason that cadre deployment exists is to enable the ANC to interfere in appointments to positions in the public sector. Cadre deployment therefore directly impacts on the public, through loadshedding and widespread service delivery collapse, which means that the public has a constitutional and inherent right to know the contents of all cadre deployment records.