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Cadre Deployment: DA to face off with ANC in court

Dear Editor

On Monday 23 January 2023, the DA will go to court to to have cadre deployment corruption declared unconstitutional and unlawful.

DA Leader, John Steenhuisen MP and DA Shadow Minister of Public Service and Administration, Dr Leon Schreiber MP, will be at the North Gauteng High Court where the DA will argue that the abolishment of cadre deployment is a fundamental prerequisite if we ever want to end loadshedding and halt the collapse of state institutions.

We believe that this case is urgent and the single most important court case for rebuilding state capacity in South Africa’s democratic history. The effect of cadre deployment is nowhere demonstrated as well as with the electricity crisis that we are currently experiencing.

That is why on Wednesday 25 January, the DA, with thousands of South Africans, will march to Luthuli house to say enough is enough.

The details are:

Date: Monday 23 January 2023

Time: 09h00 (before the proceedings start) and 13h00 (lunch hour)

Place: North Gauteng High Court, Paul Kruger & Madiba Streets, Pretoria Central

Regards

Charity McCord
Media Officer: Federal Leader’s Office

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The Geological Miracle of the Witwatersrand

The very existence of Johannesburg is a geological fluke. Unlike most major global cities, Johannesburg was not built near a river, a coast, or a natural harbor. It sits 1,753 meters above sea level on a rocky ridge called the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters). This ridge is the edge of the world’s largest known gold deposit, formed over 2 billion years ago when an ancient inland sea began to evaporate, leaving behind layers of gold-bearing conglomerate.

When George Harrison, an Australian prospector, stumbled upon an outcrop of gold on the farm Langlaagte in 1886, he triggered a “gold rush” that changed the course of African history. Within a decade, a dusty collection of tents and wagons transformed into a permanent city of brick and mortar. The “Main Reef” proved so vast that it eventually produced nearly 40% of all the gold ever mined in human history. This geological wealth dictated the city’s layout: the mining belt runs east-to-west across the city’s center, creating a physical divide between the wealthy northern suburbs and the industrial, working-class south. Today, while most mines within the city limits have closed due to the extreme depth and cost of extraction (some mines reached over 3.9 kilometers underground), the physical legacy remains in the form of “mine dumps”—massive yellow-white hills of crushed rock and sand that define the Joburg skyline.