ANC to comply with ConCourt order to publicise records of deployment committee meetings
The DA has been pursuing this matter in a bid to show that President Cyril Ramaphosa - who was chair of the committee during that period - is complicit in state capture.
Delegates at the ANC's 55th national elective conference on 17 December 2022. Picture: Jacques Nelles/Eyewitness News
JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress says it will comply with a Constitutional Court order to make public records of its deployment committee meetings before the close of business on Monday.
It’s also accusing the Democratic Alliance (DA) of politically gaslighting it over its cadre deployment policy.
The governing party has until 5pm on Monday to publish the 2013 minutes from the committee’s meetings.
The DA has been pursuing this matter in a bid to show that President Cyril Ramaphosa - who was chair of the committee during that period - is complicit in state capture.
The main opposition said it would want the members of the ANC jailed for being in contempt of the court if they don’t hand over the records.
However, the ANC claims readiness to make public the deployment committee records.
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The ANC in a statement, said the DA is deliberately misinterpreting and creating false expectations of what’s contained in those minutes.
The ANC has previously claimed to have lost the records of meetings by the committee between 2012 and 2017.