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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The ANC\u2019s cadre deployment committee was so unhappy that its preferred candidate judge for a position on the Constitutional Court was snubbed after being shortlisted by the judicial service committee (JSC) that it sent an e-mail to justice minister Ronald Lamola asking him to \u201cimmediately address this\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the e-mail from the late former ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte, the convener of the cadre deployment committee, she tells justice minister Ronald Lamola that the process to snub Ramola Naidoo, the ANC\u2019s preferred candidate, was inconsistent with the law and showed lack of transparency as there was no explanation provided to her.<\/p>\n

This, she said, was because though Naidoo had less judicial experience, she was highly qualified and that the section 174(5) broadens the scope \u201cto include candidates with no judicial experience\u201d.<\/p>\n

Duarte\u2019s e-mail is in stark contrast to the remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the state capture commission that the deployment committee does not appoint judges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deployment committee knows that, at best, all it can ever do is note that, one, there is a vacancy; two, that there are certain names that could be proposed and, having done that, it also knows very well it is not the appointing structure,\u201d Ramaphosa told the state capture commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd by definition, by the way our constitution works, it could never ever have a judge appointed because that is a process that is done through the JSC and what comes out of the JSC is the will of those people who sit on the JSC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duarte’s e-mail read: \u201cIt has been brought to our attention that Adv Ramola Naidoo, a highly qualified female applicant for the Constitutional Court who was shortlisted according to attached document for the position by the JSC… was subsequently removed despite being more qualified and experienced than most if not all the other listed candidates.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was the one removed from the list. The list was published on February 13 2020 and no communication has been made with Adv Naidoo. The process is inconsistent with section 174(5) which broadens the scope to include candidates with judicial experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is unclear how Duarte would have been aware that no explanation was given to Naidoo at that stage.<\/p>\n

The DA has alleged this is proof the ANC was in constant communication with Naidoo and that she was the deployment committee\u2019s preferred candidate.<\/p>\n

Duarte further called for clarity to be given on the influential role of the chief justice and the legal profession are addressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are requesting that the issues with regard to lack of transparency be addressed as well as the influential role of the chief justice, legal profession. Please attend to this matter ASAP,\u201d wrote Duarte.<\/p>\n

It is unclear why the ANC felt the chief justice, who was Mogoeng Mogoeng at the time, was too influential.<\/p>\n

The DA\u2019s Leon Schreiber believes the e-mail proves that the ANC felt the judiciary had become more powerful than the ANC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ANC documents that are now in the DA\u2019s possession after our victory in the Constitutional Court reveal the ANC\u2019s national cadre deployment committee to be the biggest racketeering syndicate in our country\u2019s democratic history,\u201d said Schreiber.<\/p>\n

The deployment committee records show that the ANC had its hand and a say in every appointment at every institution, including the judiciary, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo institution is spared from interference, including the judiciary and the highest court in the land. The 2019 minutes, as well as the 2020 letter from Duarte, show how the ANC directly interfered with the work of the JSC to favour ‘loyal cadres’ for appointment \u2014 all the way up to the Constitutional Court itself.<\/p>\n

“These documents reveal that the ANC repeatedly used the cadre deployment committee to attack the independence of the JSC, the judiciary, and even the Constitutional Court.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Africa. The ANC\u2019s cadre deployment committee was so unhappy that its preferred candidate judge for a position on the Constitutional Court was snubbed after being shortlisted by the judicial service committee (JSC) that it sent an e-mail to justice minister Ronald Lamola asking him to \u201cimmediately address this\u201d. 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