DA gives Ramaphosa more time to fire ‘lying’ ministers

A day later‚ DA leader Mmusi Maimane wrote to Ramaphosa asking him to dismiss from his cabinet both Dlamini‚ who is now the minister in the presidency responsible for women‚ and Gigaba‚ who is minister of home affairs.

Maimane gave Ramaphosa until October 5 to dismiss the two ministers‚ warning that the DA would otherwise approach the courts to seek an order to compel him to act to uphold the honour of the executive.

TimesLIVE has since seen a letter from the DA’s lawyers dated October 8‚ in which they advise Ramaphosa to respond formally by Friday‚ October 12 “failing which our client has instructed us to proceed without any delay”.

The law firm said the DA had instructed them to launch “the necessary review proceedings with regards to your failure to remove Mrs Dlamini and Mr Gigaba from your cabinet for the reasons set out in our client’s letter”.

In his letter‚ Maimane reminded Ramaphosa about his party’s litigation against former president Jacob Zuma concerning the rationality of appointments to the cabinet. Their court action followed Zuma’s dismissal of Pravin Gordhan from his cabinet “for manifestly irrational reasons”.

“Our contention was and remains that all constitutional acts must be rational‚ and this includes appointments in terms of section 91(3) of the Constitution of members of the cabinet. It follows‚ so we argue‚ that such appointments can be reviewed.”

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