The DA has dismissed as “frivolous” the ANC’s decision to approach the Constitutional Court to appeal against a lower-court ruling on its controversial cadre deployment policy, which has been blamed as one of the foundations of corruption and inefficiency in the government and state-owned enterprises.

This after the Supreme Court of Appeal last week dismissed the governing party’s attempts to appeal two rulings by the high court in Johannesburg forcing the ANC to hand over records of its cadre deployment committee since January 1 2013, when President Cyril Ramaphosa became chair...