The court dismissed the opposition DA party's application to have the governing party's cadre deployment policy declared unconstitutional, and ordered costs against them.

The DA has stated that it will either petition the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein or go directly to the Constitutional Court. This comes after the DA's victory in the Constitutional Court last week. In that judgment, the ANC was ordered to hand over its cadre deployment records to the DA.

"We will respond comprehensively to the DA in terms of the records, explaining that we have released them. The first issue is of principle with regard to cadre deployment. We will clarify some of the distortions they seek to make, but also, they have lost in relation to their assertion that the party policy of cadre deployment must be declared illegal using the Zondo Commission," said the ANC secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula.

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