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ANC and Mbalula in contempt over cadre deployment records – court
On 3 March the High Court in Johannesburg found the ANC and its secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula, guilty of contempt of court.
The DA brought an urgent application to the court on 4 March 2024, after the ANC redacted, destroyed and withheld records of its cadre deployment committee dating back to 1 January 2013, when Cyril Ramaphosa became its chairman.
The court held that the ANC violated a court order upheld by the Constitutional Court. It amounted to ‘wilful’ and ‘mala fide’ contempt of court.
The court ordered the ANC to give effect to the original court order to:
1. Unredact all the information already provided to the DA;
2. Provide all of the information related to the processes and decisions of the ANC cadre deployment committee between 1 January 2013 to 1 January 2021; and
3. Provide emails, WhatsApps and other social media communications between members of the committee, and between committee members, committee chairpersons and government officials.
4. Provide the DA with copies of all attachments to the above documentation;
5. Give a neutral third-party information technology expert, agreed to by the DA, the task to extract information required to be disclosed by the court order, namely:
- The hard drive and laptop of ANC official Thapelo Masilela;
- The personal emails of Thapelo Masilela; and
- The laptop of ANC official Lungi Mtshali.
6. The ANC must report its compliance with the order to the court and to the DA’s attorneys, in writing and under oath.
The ANC was ordered to pay the DA’s costs of the application on the attorney:client scale, including the costs of two counsel.
The ANC has 15 working days (until 24 April) to comply with the order.
source:ANC and Mbalula in contempt over cadre deployment records – court – Daily Friend
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