ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula accused of using double standards when it comes to cadre deployment. Mbalula said the DA’s court action in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to declare cadre deployment unconstitutional was baseless. He said this policy was practiced in many democracies across the world.
“In many democracies, it is common practice that a party that has won elections seeks to ensure that the people who are appointed to senior positions in the administration understand and support the policy agenda of the democratically elected governing party, so long as such people are appointed in accordance with the legal procedures and they meet the competency requirements for such positions.
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula accused of using double standards when it comes to cadre deployment. “After all, parties are elected to lead government on the basis of their policies and performance. And deployed cadres in this regard become the stewards to steer the policy paradigm as entailed in the elections manifesto of the party that won the elections,” said Malala. He said the DA cannot claim that this policy was only practised by the ANC.
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula accused of using double standards when it comes to cadre deployment. He said the deployment committee was not micro-managing the state.
This was after its victory in the Constitutional Court to force the ANC to hand over records of the cadre deployment committee.
The ANC this week handed over some of the records, but it said it could not find records of meetings of the committee between 2012 and 2017.
This was the same position that was raised by the party at the Zondo Commission in 2021 when President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared before it.
