All Pay judgment

Justice Froneman stated in the judgment of All Pay that there may be inadvertent steps in procurement processes but these may be deliberate to cover fraud, and such enquiries are necessary.

“Justice Froneman said there may be something that looks like mere inadvertence in terms of taking the required steps. You have to enquire into that because it may look like inadvertence when, in fact, it was an inadvertent step taken deliberately in order to cover, for example, fraud in the procurement process. So, sometimes these enquiries, you know, may be necessary in that context.”