The ANC’s controversial policy of cadre deployment is in the spotlight this week, as the Pretoria High Court hears the DA’s application to have the policy declared unconstitutional. In court on Monday, the DA’s lawyer compared cadre deployment to a ...
‘We are here to chop that cancer from the body politic,” advocate Anton Katz told a full bench of the Pretoria High Court on Monday.
In court on Monday, Katz played to his audience by asking the bench if they were “okay” with the ANC’s stated desire to control “all levers of the state” — including investigative and judicial functions. A further element of the DA’s argument is that the ANC’s policy undermines the right to equality by discriminating against public service candidates who are not ANC members.
Arguing for the ruling party, Morrison said the very idea that a policy could be unconstitutional was “nonsensical”. He gave the example of a political party which might campaign to bring back the death penalty, and would be within its legal rights to hold this as a policy. “There has been no attempt to show that the appointments singled out by the DA were made solely on the basis of the cadre deployment policy in order to perform corruption,” Salukazana maintained.
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