Channel Chat – GOVERNMENT CANNOT REJECT TENDER APPLICATIONS PURELY ON RACE: SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
State-owned companies cannot disqualify prospective suppliers who are not majority black-owned without first considering the price and proposition of the tender, the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on 02 November 2020. Preferential Procurement regulations allow organs of state to disqualify tenders in advance, simply because a company was not 51 (Fifty-one) % black-owned, for example.…