Deputy Speaker, perhaps I should mention here in this House that four Child Protection Services, CPS, workers died in a bus accident in Kranskop, KwaZulu-Natal, en route to reregistering grant recipients today. I also want to thank Sassa workers for trying to ensure that we have a footprint throughout the country.
There is a second judgment that the hon member did not concede - that the award of the tender to the third respondent has not been set aside. For us, that is a victory for the people, because this whole matter is about justice and about trying to protect the human rights of the vulnerable. The third issue that we would like to raise is that we agree that there were administrative flaws. There were also flaws in terms of the issues of a single bid out of nine bids, the irregularity in the scoring and the challenges in the supply chain management.
What is important is that the key areas that were contested are the areas of the bidder's second notice. With bidder's notice number two, the judgment favoured Sassa, and the issues of conflict of interest on the part of Ms Nhlapho could not be proved. Other issues of connections were thrown out of court by the judge from the start and regarded as hearsay, because no evidence could be produced. We continue to ask people to come forward with the evidence.
Another important issue is that of biometrics, which ensures that the system is clean. The judge recognised that the clause has always been there, so it is not as if the whole thing has always been problematic. One of the issues that we need to raise here is that when all these rumours erupted and some people were implicated ...