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'ANC deployment has produced some of the best directors-general' — Mbalula 

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ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the ANC's cadre deployment policy has produced “some of the best directors-general” in government departments over the years. Mbalula briefed media at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Thursday.
The ANC had to hand over its cadre deployment committee meeting minutes to the DA by 5pm on Monday.Last week, the Constitutional Court dismissed an application by the governing party to appeal a Supreme Court of Appeal decision for it to hand over meeting minutes from 2013
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