Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir has asked a court to order the immediate arrest of Minister of Home Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, her director-general and the department's information officer for denying him access to information.

Krejcir asked the Johannesburg High Court yesterday to hold Dlamini-Zuma and director-general Mkuseli Apleni in contempt of court and to order that they be detained or fined until they release information he says might be relevant to his application for asylum in South Africa.

Krejcir had requested access to an affidavit by Home Affairs senior official Willem Vorster, which, he says, was drafted in August.

He brought an access-to-information application against the department in September and November 2010, which was unopposed and was granted in April.

Judge Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane ordered Dlamini-Zuma and Apleni to provide Krejcir with all information and records he had asked for within three days of the court order.

In court papers now, Krejcir says the order was served on Apleni three days after it was granted.

Written correspondence between the department and his lawyers continued for more than seven months but the department did not comply with the court order, he said.

"Indeed, in light of the facts set out above, particularly the repeated failure of the respondents to even reply substantively to my attorney's letters, I submit that no other inference or conclusion is possible," said Krejcir.

He had given the Department of Home Affairs 15 days after receipt of the notice to respond to his application.

Krejcir's application for asylum was to have been heard in May but was postponed pending a decision on an application by media houses to be present at the hearing.

"[Vorster's] affidavit is, to my knowledge, to serve as the basis for my unlawful arrest, detention and deportation out of, or rendition from, the republic."

Krejcir also wants access to records that served as background material for Vorster's affidavit.

"As set out in my Promotion Of Access to Information Act application, the requested information was and is highly relevant to my application for recognition of my refugee status, which is currently pending before the Refugee Appeal Board," he said.

In his court papers - in which the Refugee Appeal Board, the national police commissioner and national director of public prosecutions are also respondents - Krejcir says he requires the information in order to properly pursue his appeal before the Refugee Appeals Board.

Krejcir is to go to court in April to fight charges of insurance fraud.

He was implicated in the alleged fraud by Slovakian doctor Marian Tupy, practising in South Africa, who has been convicted after pleading guilty to charges of defrauding insurance company Liberty Life of more than R4.5-million.