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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Democratic Alliance (DA) has given ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula two days to provide it with the full, unredacted minutes of its national deployment committee or face contempt of court charges.<\/p>\n

The party says Mbalula unlawfully redacted some of the documents and failed to submit records for the period during which Cyril Ramaphosa was chair of the deployment committee between December 2012 and December 2017.<\/p>\n

Lawyers acting for DA MP Leon Schreiber served Mbalula with a letter of demand on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

In his affidavit to the court, Mbalula said redactions had been made to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia) and that the ANC no longer had the records for the period before 2018.<\/p>\n

The DA said the ruling party had \u201cinfringed\u201d the court order by \u201cunilaterally redacting and thereby withholding select portions of the documents that have been disclosed\u201d.<\/p>\n

The DA objected \u201cin particular\u201d to the redaction of names of committee members, parties to communications and the individuals who had been discussed by the committee.<\/p>\n

Its lawyers said Popia \u201cdoes not require or authorise the ANC to conduct those redactions\u201d, but even if it did, \u201cthe court order takes precedence\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisclosure of the complete, unredacted records is required in order to comply with the order. Any processing of personal information which is entailed by making that disclosure is permissible under Popia because it constitutes compliance with a legal obligation which the ANC has,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Mbalula\u2019s contention that Popia required the ANC to carry out the redactions was thus \u201cunsustainable\u201d, they said. \u201cThe duty is to disclose the full records.\u201d<\/p>\n

They said the ANC\u2019s claim that it was not able to find any of the committee\u2019s records from 1 January 2013 until May 2018 was \u201cnot credible\u201d.<\/p>\n

The ANC had at no stage of the three-year legal process indicated that these records were not available, while correspondence with the party\u2019s legal head, Krish Naidoo, showed a willingness to disclose the information, \u201cso inferring his knowledge of the record and that it existed\u201d.<\/p>\n

The ANC had also \u201cfailed to raise this as a defence at any stage in the litigation\u201d and it had been legally obliged to inform the court if it did not have any of the information requested by the DA, the lawyers said.<\/p>\n

If the ANC did not have the minutes, it could make available whatever digital records existed of the committee meetings, including correspondence.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not credible for the ANC to claim that there exists no documentary or digital trace at all of any communications on the committee\u2019s processes during this five-year period,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

The president had told the Zondo state capture commission that people had taken notes in the committee\u2019s meetings, so these could be traced and presented to the court by the ANC.<\/p>\n

The DA lawyers said the ANC had also failed to list the committee\u2019s decisions for that same period, which it had been legally obliged to do.<\/p>\n

They demanded that the party provide them with the full record for the period, including computers owned by ANC personnel, one of whom might be open to charges in terms of Popia for allegedly destroying some records.<\/p>\n

DA leader John Steenhuisen said that if the ANC did not adhere to the demand, the party would seek an urgent contempt of court ruling imposing prison time on Mbalula, who had acted on behalf of the ANC in this matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will use the precedent created in the Jacob Zuma case, when he was sent to prison for similarly being in contempt of a constitutional court order,\u201d Steenhuisen said.<\/p>\n

He said the DA would also pursue criminal charges against ANC officials involved in the destruction of information \u201cas part of a blatant coverup campaign to try and wipe Ramaphosa\u2019s fingerprints off of the cadre deployment records\u201d.<\/p>\n

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