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Sakeliga outlines its strategy after national state of disaster declaration
The grave dangers lie in the additional discretion afforded to government to make regulations and directives with serious implications for the whole of society.
Sakeliga and partners initiate legal proceedings against National Government over failing Eastern Cape municipality
Sakeliga and our local partners have initiated legal proceedings against National Government over the rolling state failure that enables the Enoch Mgijima Municipality’s collapse.
Sakeliga initiates process to have Dlamini-Zuma found guilty of contempt of court
Dr Nkosazana-Dlamini Zuma, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, remains in contempt of a court order directing her to submit to Sakeliga several records concerning her 2020 state of disaster decisions. As a result, Sakeliga has now started a process to have the minister declared guilty of contempt of court. In terms of an […]
Dlamini-Zuma fails to comply with court order on state of disaster information for Sakeliga
Dr Nkosazana-Dlamini Zuma has failed to comply with the court order to hand over the complete records of her state of disaster decisions to Sakeliga. On 9 November 2022, the High Court ordered Dlamini-Zuma to comply by 22 December 2022 with the information request that Sakeliga submitted to her in December 2020. The request for […]
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 […]
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” […]
Lichtenburg municipal crisis: government persists in failure, Sakeliga intensifies legal action
Neither the administrator of the Ditsobotla local municipality nor the North West government is apparently capable of restoring proper water supply to the towns of Lichtenburg, Coligny and others in terms of a court order that Sakeliga obtained on 13 October. Sakeliga is therefore now intensifying our legal action against the president, the North West […]