By: Natasha Archary

The African National Congress (ANC) “bends the knee”, surrendering cadre deployment records to the Democratic Alliance (DA) by close of business on Monday, 19 February.
This after the Constitutional Court ordered the ANC to hand over the records from its National Deployment Committee to the DA.
Last week’s ruling was agreed to by the ANC, who claimed that the records may not be complete because most of the files could not be traced.
Cadre deployment records dating back to 01 January 2013 were handed over to the DA, who will now study the documents to ascertain if the ANC has complied with the ConCourt order.
The ANC was forced to submit complete meeting minutes, email correspondence, WhatsApp conversations, CVs and all other relevant documentation dating back to January 2013.
It took the DA three intense court battles, with cost, over 3-years to attain these cadre deployment records.
🚨 BREAKING: After years of determined court action by the DA, the party has succeeded in forcing the ANC to hand over cadre deployment corruption records dating back to when Ramaphosa chaired the committee.
— Democratic Alliance (@Our_DA) February 19, 2024
The DA will study the records and publish them: https://t.co/GeAFH6KbuE pic.twitter.com/3WzpKg8xe9
In a statement, DA Shadow Minister for Public Service and Administration, Leon Schreiber said this is a victory for transparency, fulfilling the party’s longstanding undertaking to make public the ANC’s dirty cadre deployment secrets.
“This victory for transparency and the rule of law, comes after the ANC was forced to bend the knee before the DA in court, where we won three successive battles, with cost orders, extending all the way to the Constitutional Court.
The DA will now study the records to ascertain whether the ANC has complied with the court order in full, which directed it to hand over complete meeting minutes, email correspondence, Whatsapp conversations, CVs and all other relevant documentation dating back to January 2013.
If the ANC has erased and manipulated parts of the information, or sought to otherwise undermine the Constitutional Court’s order, the DA will launch further legal action to hold ANC leaders personally accountable.
As soon as we have processed the voluminous documentation, the DA will fulfill our longstanding undertaking to make public the ANC’s dirty cadre secrets for every South African to see.”
In 2022, the DA released a documentary on ANC cadre deployment being the root cause of corruption in the country.
The 25-minute doccie, shares how the ANC influenced the appointments of senior public servants, and judges.
ANC cadre deployment is, according to the DA, how the ruling party orchestrated State Capture, extracting public resources and causing a service delivery collapse which includes loadshedding.



