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From the Courts: The cart before the horse? An award of tender contracts before legal compliance?
Diggers Development (Pty) Ltd v City of Matlosana and Isago@N12 (Pty) Ltd (47201/09) [2010] ZAGPPHC 15.
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Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010.
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Limitations of Section 62 Appeal Procedure.
Section 62 of the Municipal Systems Act provides that any person ‘whose rights are affected by a decision taken by a political structure, political office ...
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Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010.
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The Tender Process and Blacklisted Suppliers.
The courts view the blacklisting of suppliers by the National Treasury in a very serious light and confirm that organs of state are allowed to cancel contracts ...
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Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2010
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Bid Amendments: The Disqualification of Unresponsive Bids.
The court in this case confirmed that it was unfair for an organ of state to afford one bidder an opportunity to amend its bid after the close of tenders and ...
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Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2011.
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New Preferential Procurement Regulations Released.
After much anticipation and a lengthy process of review, the new regulations under the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act of 2000 (Procurement Act ) ...
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Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2011.
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Are We On Track For A Clean Audit in 2014?
On 16 July 2009 the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) launched an ambitious project dubbed ‘Operation Clean Audit 2014’. ...
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Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2011.
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The Policy In The Numbers.
There is more to the 2011 Local Government Budgets and Expenditure Review than numbers. The review tells a story about the policy behind the numbers. It lays ...
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Volume 13, Issue 4, November 2011.
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The National Treasury 2011 Local Government Review.
It is the most rigorous analysis of local government published by government. The 2011 Local Government Budgets and Expenditure Review, released in September, ...
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Volume 13, Issue 4, November 2011.
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eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality vs COVID-19: 90 days into the Lockdown
Since the declaration of the state of national disaster by the Minister of Cooperative Government on 18 March 2020, and the subsequent announcement of a ...
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Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2020
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Municipal Cost Containment Regulations: An attempt to curb local government wastefulness?
The public has long put pressure on the government to curb the resource wastage at the local level. In a bid to contain this problem, on 7 June 2019, the ...
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Volume 14, Issue 2, December 2019