Concourt ruling haunts city officials

OPPOSITION parties in the eThekwini Municipality have called for accountability from the officials who have caused the City to incur costs in a R30-million tender legal battle between the City and a service provider which ended up in the Constitutional Court.

- WILLEM PHUNGULA [e-mail]

Last week, the Constitutional Court dismissed the City's leave to appeal the Supreme Court of Appeal judgment - the City wanted the upper courts to overturn the Durban High Court ruling in 2022 which ordered it to pay Daily Double Trading an amount of R30m as a settlement for the R43m claim the company made for work done.

The City's argument was that it did not authorise an attorney, who reached a settlement with the service provider.

However, the City did not oppose the matter in court.