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After considering the judgment made by Judge Dennis Davis in the Western Cape High Court we have decided urgently to appeal the decision to the Constitutional Court.
 
We have taken this decision on the basis that Judge Davis upheld the constitutional right that a motion of no-confidence be debate in reasonable time frame and that the National Assembly’s failure to do so has frustrated this right.
 
Our legal team will file this urgent appeal as soon as possible. We will also request that the court rule that the debate be held as a matter of urgency.
 
As Judge Davis emphasised in his ruling today, the National Assembly is a forum which represents all the people of this country and as such, its members have a constitutional right to have matters of national importance heard in an open debate with their peers.  
 
This right cannot be subverted without recourse, and we now look to the nation’s highest court to vindicate it.