DA fails with court application to declare cadre deployment unconstitutional

Judge Aubrey Ledwaba read out the full bench's decision on Wednesday morning. 

"The application is dismissed with cost. The cost includes in respect of the first and the third respondents, the cost of five counsel with one senior counsel.”   

DA leader John Steenhuisen says they will appeal the ruling.

"Our legal team is busy as we speak, digesting the judgment, but we will appeal it to the Supreme Court of Appeal and potentially directly to the Constitutional Court. We believe there can be no greater constitutional imperative than to deal with this particular matter and its effect on South Africa.

"If cadre deployment is continued and supported in its current form, it will continue to undermine the state, and it will continue to cause great harm to the South African people and their prospect for the future."

The judgment comes days after the ANC handed over its documents to the DA following its unsuccessful appeal to the Constitutional Court. 

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The records date back to January 2013, when President Cyril Ramaphosa headed the deployment committee.

 The DA claims the party's cadre deployment led to state capture, systemic corruption, and a collapse of services.

"The minutes, as we have already seen from information that is now in the public domain, went so far as to influence judicial appointments and various other key appointments across the state. This is a clear violation of the principle of the separation of powers, and we believe that the court has not taken the terrible effect of cadre deployment into account in this particular matter."   

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