Government procurement and BEE

Solidarity and the Constitution – BEE’s big test starts today

Leave a Comment / 2012 COGP, BEE and the Constitution, BEE compliance, Government procurement and BEE /

There is a court case being heard by the Constitutional Court today.   The Constitutional Court is on Thursday expected to hear a case brought by trade union Solidarity and the South African Restructuring and Insolvency Practitioners' Association (Saripa) challenging the constitutionality of BEE and affirmative action. The court case relates to the abolition of the Department […]

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White monopoly capital, zumatrump, entitlement, sulking and crystal bollocks

Leave a Comment / 2012 COGP, Codes of Good Practice, Government procurement and BEE, Guptafication, hlaudi motsoeneng, zoomer, zoomoron /

It seems as though it'll be more of the same as last year, only worse when you throw trump into the equation.  What a perfect pair zuma and trump (henceforth lower case- altwee) are, if you combine them you have a perfect despot.  zuma's agenda for this year is divert the public's attention away from the

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Zuma promises more changes to boost BEE – now it’s changing the PPPFA

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Speaking to the Black Business Council, which has signaled strong support for Zuma, South Africa’s president said that the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act will be changed “to continue the quest for a transformed economy”. More people must be brought into the net to benefit from government contracts, he said. via www.biznews.com We've heard this

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Draft PPPFA regulation disgust (discussed and cussed)

Leave a Comment / Government procurement and BEE, Local economic development, PPPFA, Preferential Procurement, zoomer, zoomoron, zumachine Gun, Zungurisation /

In his 2015 state of the nation giggle session our very competent, intelligent and decisive president made the following announcement. Government will set-aside 30% of appropriate categories of State procurement for purchasing from SMMEs, co-operatives as well as township and rural enterprises. We are quite used to this esteemed personage's platitudes and incredible decisiveness so it

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Bills, bills, bills (or what I really think of the new B-BBEE Bill)

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Commenting on a bill like the new BEE bill could either be knee-jerk as an immediate response or knee-jerk after much deliberation. I chose the latter route. The first thing I realised was that you can't look at the amendments without looking at the original act. And so I was going to laboriously combine the

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B-BBEE Alignment (dis) Awareness Campaign

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Broad- Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) & Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA) Regulations, 2011 ALIGNMENT AWARENESS CAMPAIGN Amajuba District Municipality hereby invites all business entities with its area of jurisdiction to the information session in which the KZN Treasury will clarify the alignment of B-BBEE and PPPFA Regulations. As from the 7th of December

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The complex nature of government procurement and a course that explains it all

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You might have noticed this weekend's Business Times' article on Dennis Worral and his little issue with doing business (or more correctly, his ATTEMPT) at doing business with the government. The bidding department is that of Transport. The story goes along these lines (Worral's company) put in a R6.7-million bid to run a three-day investment

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