Ramaphosa reiterates defence of ANC deployment committee
President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken the stand at the commission of inquiry into state capture.
The president began Wednesday morning by appearing in his capacity as leader of the ANC.
Later he is expected to testify about his time as president and deputy president of the country.
Evidence leader Paul Pretorius honed in first on the ANC's deployment committee, when Ramaphosa was chairperson.
”In our view, a general review of the minutes would indicate that, in large part, not always, but in large part the hard definition that I referred to, the deployment committee decides and instructs.
“The second issue is the recommendation does not go from the committee to the appointing authority. It’s the other way around. The appointing authority recommends, and it is the deployment committee which, in its wisdom and according to its practice, makes a decision.”
But Ramaphosa said legally mandated processes are being followed in the deployment process.
“It is not an appointing committee. It does not appoint by definition and by its own existence. In the last evidence I gave here I said its a recommending committee. It recommends and proposes. And chair, this is what happens, if you like, in the political landscape of our country."
