The African National Congress (ANC) has been slapped with a cost order by the High Court in Joburg, for delaying a matter in which the Democratic Alliance (DA) is challenging its cadre deployment policy.
The ANC wasn’t ready to proceed with the case on Wednesday, after failing to file heads of argument for over 11 months.
It informed the court that this was because it had changed lawyers on Friday.
Judge Fiona Dippenaar said that it appeared that the ANC was intentionally drawing out the case.
She ordered the party pay the DA’s legal bill for the wasted time.
The DA wants the ANC to hand over all communication, including emails and phone messages, related to decisions taken by the ANC’s deployment committee when it was chaired by President Cyril Ramaphosa between 2013 and 2018.
The DA’s Leon Schreiber said that his party would not relent in this pursuit.
“In January 2023, the DA will be back in court for our second case against ANC cadre deployment, where we are asking a full bench of the North Gauteng High Court to declare this system unconstitutional and unlawful. The DA is waging this war against cadre deployment because we care about the rights of South Africans to receive honest and quality services.”
The ANC has been given 10 days to file the necessary paperwork or lose its right to reply.
Source: https://ewn.co.za/2022/10/06/anc-ordered-to-pay-da-s-legal-bill-for-delays-in-cadre-deployment-matter
DA counting down to ANC corruption case
Issued by John Steenhuisen MP – Leader of the Democratic Alliance
07 Oct 2022 in News
The DA is eagerly counting down until the ANC launches its threatened legal action over the DA’s accurate description of this party as corrupt. In case the ANC was still unsure, allow me to clear up any remaining uncertainty: the ANC is pathologically corrupt, and every South African knows this to be true.
By our calculations, the ANC only has 27 hours left to file their threatened legal action. The clock is ticking. Our lawyers are awaiting service of legal papers.
As part of this legal case, which the DA has already started preparing, we will expose every single instance and scheme of corruption perpetrated by the ANC over the past 30 years. The case presents a historic opportunity to confirm, before a court of law, that which every South African already knows: The ANC is corrupt, and its corruption has robbed millions of South Africans of jobs, electricity, running water, and a better future.
So the DA says to the ANC: bring it on!
Either the ANC stands by its threat and launches legal action, in which case the DA is ready to expose reams of evidence proving that the ANC is corrupt. On the other hand, if the ANC backs down from their public threat, it will prove that this party is not only corrupt, but also home to craven cowards.
The clock is ticking.
