by VDT Attorneys | Feb 26, 2026 | B-BEE, Companies Act, Companies Amendment Act, RF suffix in a company name
The Companies Act 71 of 2008 (“Act”), more specifically section 19(1)(b), states that a company has all the legal powers and capacity of an individual in South Africa, except to the extent that the juristic person is incapable of exercising a particular power or...
by VDT Attorneys | Feb 28, 2023 | B-BEE, Preferential Procurement, Procurement, Procurement Regulations
Firstly, the Constitutional Court judgment did not invalidate BEE in public procurement, but rather declared the setting of pre-qualification criteria that excluded certain tenderers from the onset as contained in the 2017 Regulations as invalid and demanded that the...
by VDT Attorneys | Jun 14, 2022 | B-BEE, BEE, Preferential Procurement, Tender
In November 2020 the Supreme Court of Appeal found that the provisions in the Regulations to the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act 5 of 2000 relating to the application of B-BBEE requirements in tender criteria should be set aside and declared invalid, and...