Airports Company South Africa SOC Limited (ACSA)
a) An application under case number 25363/2018 to declare that the Invitation for bidders to submit a proposal to be issued a license to provide ground handling services issued to market was in violation of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act 3 of 2000.
(i) The only legal action is as per (a) above and it was only in the last financial year 2018/2019
(ii) There has been a continuation of the matter under case number 25363/2018. Swissport South Africa Proprietary Limited have been successful in joining the Minister of Finance in relation to the argument pertaining to the constitutionality of the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act 5 of 2000
(b) Airports Company South Africa issued a request for an “Invitation for bidders to submit a proposal to be issued a license to provide ground handling services” to market on 16 May 2018, following which Swissport South Africa Proprietary Limited launched the application under case number 25363/2018 as it believed the Invitation was unlawful and in violation of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act 3 of 2000.
(c) The matter is still sub judice
(d)(i) The matter under case number 25363/2018
(ii) The matter is still sub judice as a result there can be no finality until a competent court has handed down judgment and the parties do not appeal or cannot appeal the judgment.