Sakeliga takes Eskom to court over load reduction
Sakeliga, in collaboration with Agri North-West, TLU SA and affected businesses, launched a court application against Eskom today with the view of ending targeted load reduction on numerous feeder lines across the country. For more than a year now, Eskom has regularly and for hours on end been terminating the power supply of direct users […]
Imprisonment lurking for municipal manager for not complying with Sakeliga court order
The former municipal manager of the Mogalakwena Local Municipality in Limpopo will have to go to prison next week unless municipal records requested by Sakeliga in May 2021 are delivered to Sakeliga by the municipality today. Hendrick Ngoepe, former municipal manager, the municipality itself and its present municipal manager, were found guilty of contempt of […]
Sakeliga obtains court order against Dlamini-Zuma over lockdown records
Lockdown decision processes will be made public for the first time For the first time since the declaration of a national state of disaster for Covid-19 in March 2020, the veil of secrecy over the government’s decision-making processes regarding Covid disaster management regulations will be lifted. This is owing to a court victory that Sakeliga […]
Professor Koos Malan accepts fellowship at Sakeliga’s new Centre for Constitutional Dynamics
Dear Sakeliga member and friend It is our pleasure to announce the establishment of Sakeliga’s new Centre for Constitutional Dynamics and the appointment of Professor Koos Malan as its first Fellow. The announcement comes at an important time for Sakeliga’s mission. In the decade ahead, we will have to craft a good business environment despite […]
Sakeliga reiterates: state entities may immediately elect to cease BEE and local content procurement requirements
Sakeliga reiterates the view in our statement and special report issued last week that state entities may immediately cease setting BEE and local content conditions in procurement. The Public Procurement Bill cannot change this, and to the extent that it seeks to do so, we will challenge it on Constitutional grounds. Neither erroneous “clarification” […]
Sakeliga Special Report: how state entities can immediately start procuring responsibly and independently
This report reconfirms municipalities’ apparently forgotten but constitutionally mandated discretion and independence in procurement.
STATE ENTITIES MAY CEASE MANDATORY BEE IN PROCUREMENT IMMEDIATELY
National Treasury overwhelmed with more than 700 applications for preferential procurement exemptions in wake of Sakeliga’s ConCourt victory Sakeliga can today announce that owing to a five-year litigation battle against the Minister of Finance, BEE and local content requirements in public procurement have finally been scrapped. New regulations promulgated last week by the Minister of […]
[LISTEN] Dis-Chem’s predicament – businesses are not agents of harmful state policies – Piet le Roux
Piet le Roux talks to James Kemp on the Beleidsradar (Friday evenings in Sakekern Pretoria FM) about the recent uproar caused by an internal memorandum of Dis-Chem.
A message to members: We do not have to accept the state’s harmful ideology
Two weeks ago, a leaked internal memo from Dis-Chem’s CEO revealed the dangerous extent to which businesses can internalise the state’s race-based ideology. That is a path toward ruin, which is why Sakeliga, with your support, is working towards a different business ethos. What started as “nudging” and “voluntary” in the Employment Equity Act of […]
[Listen] Crisis in Lichtenburg, Coligny – Sakeliga obtains favourable judgment in court
Tian Alberts (Sakeliga legal officer) talks to RSG Monitor about a recent judgment on the Ditsobotla Municipality where service delivery has collapsed. Sakeliga approached the court to restore water services in the municipality. Source: RSG Monitor The judgment in the high court in Mahikeng forms part (Part A) of a two-part court case by means […]