Cape Town Just Beat Race-Based Procurement at the Constitutional Court

Frans Cronje talks about the Western Cape and Cape Town governments striking a blow against race-based procurement regulations.

5 min

The Constitutional Court has struck down the new procurement rules that would have made race “nearly an absolute determinant” of who wins state tenders. In this clip from Talking Sense, Frans Cronje talks about how the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape government beat the racial procurement rules, why he thinks some in the Treasury wanted them to, and why holding the line is how a country is turned around.

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